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Great images of books from around the world and the Web.
Two photographers write in:
In the Chaucer Bookstore in Canterbury (made famous by Chaucer, of course), a young woman is transformed into a faceless reader, engulfed by books that surround her.
Photograph by Tammy Ho ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
For our shopping-themed contest this week, we got more answers than ever before. Now we know what it must feel like to work retail on Black Friday. Many responded, but only one can win. The fastest correct responder this week was Andrew Jordan, of Chicago, Illinois. Per usual, Andrew will ...
Books
Lauren Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada
Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Where do you begin when you decide to write to everyone in the world? The artists Lenka Clayton and Michael Crowe began with Cushendall, Ireland. During April of 2009, all four hundred and sixty-seven of Cushendall’s households received a handwritten letter from Clayton and Crowe. ...
Books
“What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work ...
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The Gift
The “Twilight” movies have paved the way for several new film adaptations of books by the Brontë sisters.
Shirley Dent argues that a new slang version of “Julius Caesar” patronizes both kids and adults .
Accident photos reveal that Tiger Woods had a physics ...
Books
Twilight
Philip Pullman
Frank McCourt
Accident
Amsterdam
The Van
Great images of books from around the world and the Web.
A reader writes in: “Our cat, Wednesday, vs. Bulgakov’s Behemoth, on the cover of ‘The Master and Margarita.’ ”
Photograph by Anna Rybakov.
Taken a picture of books worth a thousand words? ...
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There might be some good things to be said for the holiday spirit—that it brightens otherwise dreary winters, that it brings together families, that it inspires goodwill—but it’s not entirely amusing. Think of the unannounced carolers and their icicle-splintering ...
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Jonathan Franzen
Suzanne Collins
It's perhaps odd that the most popular feature on Andrew Sullivan's political blog The Daily Dish has nothing to do with politics. "The View from Your Window" shares reader-submitted photos of, well, the views from their windows. The images are remarkably diverse, both in character and ...
Books
The Contest is back this week. Thank you to those who wrote in with your concerns. After a restful Thanksgiving hiatus, we are refocussed and rededicated to the Contest cause. We’d also like to take this moment to say that you, dear reader, are by no means limited to finding Contest ...
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Amidst all the mutterings about plans for a Harry Potter theme park, we’ve discovered an even quirkier way for bookish kids to get their kicks: Valencia’s Parque Gulliver , a jungle gym in the shape of Lemuel Gulliver , his body tied to the sandy ground by Lilliputian ropes ...
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Graham Swift
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
The Morgan Library and Museum offers an inside look at Dickens's original manuscript for "A Christmas Carol."
McDonald's uses poetry to sell burgers in Britain.
"Sweet Thunder," a new biography of Sugar Ray Robinson, reveals that the exceptional boxer was also a savvy businessman .
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Ted Hughes
Kim Stanley Robinson
Ray Bradbury
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Great images of books from around the world
and the Web. Following the death last year of...
the Australian journalist P. P. (Paddy) McGuinness, his ten-thousand-book private library was auctioned off. The design firm Whybin/TBWA created this ...
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1,000 Words: Books Make the Man
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In 2007, Cindy M. Meston and David M.
Buss, both psychology professors at the University of Texas...
at Austin, published a joint research paper on human sexuality titled “Why Humans Have Sex.” The answers of their study’s female ...
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Ask an Academic: Why Women Have Sex
newyorker.com - 17 hours ago
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The massively enchanting (and meticulous) structures built by
the installation artist Tom Bendtsen make me recall the...
endless fun of childhood fort-building, though of course my creations were on a smaller scale, and generally employed couch ...
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Towering Books
The last time I tried to use a payphone it was winter in New York. I’d just moved here from Berlin, carrying two suitcases, a drowned German cell phone, and a deep nostalgia for Spree-side picnics. To my immense frustration, I soon discovered that, though flickering phone booths stood ...
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Cell
A new theory suggests that Jane Austen may have died from " tuberculosis caught from cattle ."
Cormac McCarthy puts his Olivetti typewriter up for sale .
Jonathan Littell wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Prize .
The Global Language Monitor names "Twitter" the most commonly-used word in 2009 ...
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Jane Austen
Cormac McCarthy
William Golding
Jonathan Franzen
Great images of books from around the world and the Web.
The photographer writes:
Each year my friend Jan comes up with a new way to give life to old books. In September 2009, the “Thésarbre” sprouted overnight in the courtyard of the Romainmôtier Abbey ...
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Nature
It’s the last day of November and I really hope that even in your post-turkey stupor you didn’t forget to finish your novel; that in stimulating digestive juices you didn’t neglect to stimulate creative ones; that your laziness did not prevail in spite of the cold and the rain ...
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Do you bring a book along with you to the ballpark? Do you love the sexy sports-jersey look, but hate the game it represents? To put it another way, as the excellent online retailer Novel-T Press does :
What if your heroes are found in the bookstore instead of the ballpark?
To solve ...
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Dick Francis
The Word
newyorker.com - 3 days ago
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Books had a great Black Friday, according to
the National Retail Federation, accounting for 40.3 % of...
sales , and coming in second to clothing. Reports trickled in of “Going Rogue,” the Twilight series, and the Vampire Academy series ...
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In the Black
