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'You can't grasp her or replicate her': Why Anna Magnani is the overlooked 'goddess' of Italian cinema Anna Magnani's captivating performance in the masterpiece Rome, Open City, which is 80 this year, is a standout role that made her one of the country's finest talents.

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Patricia Routledge: Keeping Up Appearances star dies at 96 She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played the BBC's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp.

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(looking nervously at a TBR pile): Haven't decided just you. You?

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Claudia Cardinale, star of '60s and '70s European cinema, dies at 87 Cardinale starred in more than 100 films and made-for-television productions, but she was best known for embodying youthful purity in Federico Fellini’s "8½."

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17 Best Non-Fiction Books to Read in Your Lifetime - Alibris 17 Best Non-Fiction Books to Read in Your Lifetime

New Alibris Blog post: 17 Best Non-Fiction Books to Read in Your Lifetime
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"Okay, I’m well aware this is not a talent… but it’s the only thing I’m good at." 📚 Some people run marathons, I read them. #BookwormLife #ReadersGonnaRead #BookHumor #ReadingAddict #BookTok TikTok video by alibrisbooks

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Robert Redford: a life in pictures Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance and environmentalist, Robert Redford has died at the age of 89. Here we look back at his life and times

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The Mountain Goats Announce New Album, Share New Song “Armies of the Lord” Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Replacements’ Tommy Stinson appear on Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan

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Dark Academia Grows Up - Public Books R. F. Kuang uses the confluence of romantasy, academic satire, and dark academia to pose a more interesting set of questions. To wit: What is the magic that scholars find in the academy?

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National Book Foundation to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Roxane Gay The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, today announced award-winning writer, editor, publisher, professor, and cultural critic Roxane Gay as the recipient of the 2025 Lit...

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How “Delicious Read” The Thursday Murder Club Went from Book to Screen Helen Mirren leads a squad of crime-solving retirees in the murder-mystery film.

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Panel 1: A figure wheels a large suitcase. It is labelled with a huge X. X: number of books taken on my summer holiday this year. Panel 2: The figures sits in a deckchair reading. A pile of books is labelled with a Y. Y: number of books I did not get round to reading. Panel 3: The figures works out an equation on a whiteboard. It reads X-Y =Z Z: number of books I should take with me next year. Panel 4 Caption: And yet, one year later… The figures wheels the suitcase once again. It is once again marked with a huge X

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The Smiths’ drummer Mike Joyce announces memoir The Drums Publisher says ‘Mike’s honest, entertaining and deeply human memoir is what Smiths fans have been waiting for’

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Women, Seated "A novel about the unraveling lives of a nanny and the family she works for following the downfall of its patriarch, a prominent Chinese politician"--

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Chinese literature is tough to find in English. One editor hopes to change that The novel Women Seated is a thriller about a nanny for a rich family and a kidnapping gone awry. It's the first in a new effort to redefine the types of Chinese literature get translated into English.

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Prominent Kids’ Authors Build a Low-Residency MFA Program Three high-profile authors have put their heads and their networks together to dream up a university program tailor-made for children’s and YA creators.

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‘Deeply concerning’: reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%, new study says Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline

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