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The first half of the 20th century was a turbulent and transformative period for American and British culture. Women and men began to define themselves in very different ways, and one of the tools ...

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The world of literature is in mourning. The essayist and literary critic Walter Pedullà has died at the age of 94. The news ...

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the master of children’s horror recommends creepy-crawly classics and modern thrills for young readers. A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century ...

From the perspective of building an autonomous knowledge system in Chinese philosophy and social sciences, and advancing ...

Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter gutting depictions of losing a child ... While overall child mortality was somewhat lower in the U.K., the rate remained near 50% ...

Tim Curry is one of the greatest actors of all time. Throwing himself into each and every performance — no matter how ...

Originally a secondary tool for philosophers and grammarians, logic was exalted into new primary status in the 19th and 20th ...

No novelist since the legendary Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, author of the widely read classic Chemmeen, has so profoundly mesmerised Malayali mind ... Kerala in the first half of the 20th century was ...