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How We Crowdfunded $750k for a Giant Book about Keyboard History

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Thus it made perfect sense that on a vacation day during a work trip in 2016,...
Thus it made perfect sense that on a vacation day during a work trip in 2016, he found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and wandered into one of the world’s greatest typewriter collections, in Figueres, Spain. It seemed almost as if his interest brought the technology history museum into existence for hi...

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The Suburbs Have Become a Ponzi Scheme

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PinePhone review after a month of daily driving

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A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself

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You’re familiar with Karel Čapek, right? If not, you should be—he’s the guy who (along with...
You’re familiar with Karel Čapek, right? If not, you should be—he’s the guy who (along with his brother Josef) invented the word “robot.” Čapek introduced robots to the world in 1921, when his play “R.U.R.” (subtitled “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) was first performed in Prague. It was performed in New York City the n...

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Narcotopia by Patrick Winn, review: a thorn in China's side

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Here’s a book that offers recreational drug users the rare treat of feeling a little virtuous....
Here’s a book that offers recreational drug users the rare treat of feeling a little virtuous. It’s the story of the Wa highlanders, who have lived in the border mountains between Myanmar and China for centuries. Unlike the Tibetans or the Uyghurs, they have not been bullied by a bigger nation into ceding their auto...

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I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939)

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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) Approximate Word Count: 3211 Fifth Avenue...
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) Approximate Word Count: 3211 Fifth Avenue was shining in the sun when they left the Brevoort and started walking toward Washington Square. The sun was warm, even though it was November, and everything looked like Sunday morning--the buses, and the well-dres...

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Flaubert versus the World

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The last time I tried to “teach” Madame Bovary was in an advanced undergraduate course at...
The last time I tried to “teach” Madame Bovary was in an advanced undergraduate course at a London university, and I had expected better results. The students either hated it or found it “boring,” and even when they did “sort of like” it, they hated the central character and said things like: “How can I like someone...

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Margaret Cavendish: A Polymath Who Scandalized 17th-Century London

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.January ReleasesYour Next ReadCritics’ ReviewsEditors’ Choice100 Notable BooksIn “Pure Wit,” Francesca Peacock makes a fresh case for the writer Margaret Cave...

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A Vision of Russia as a Country That Runs on Violence

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Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)

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