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It’s a yoouge summer reading list: Best start now

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Here’s a huge list of TED speaker-recommended books for summer reading, with all the diversity of titles and topics you...

The (nearly) unbearable price of success for Arundhati Roy

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Being an activist/artist is trickier than it sounds, as India's Booker Prize-winning darling Arundhati Roy has discovered. Twenty years after The...

Coming soon: The Wharf Revue 2017

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The Patriotic Rag, written and created by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe, and Phillip Scott is coming in October - and...

Dunkirk the movie: An uptick in tourism for the beaches of Normandy?

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As  the "tiny ships" Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan's blockbuster goes global, locals on the northern beaches of France are looking for...

Sale of the century: A Rockefeller’s lot goes under the hammer

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The estate of banking scion and art collector David Rockefeller, who passed away in March at the age of 101,...

Change at NYT Books: Novelists sigh with relief

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Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times chief book reviewer and Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been, by a wide margin,...

Discovering the heart of secret Rome

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A chance meeting, a shared interest in archaeology, and an unusual friendship was born in Rome between a taxi driver and...

This sexagenarian romp is a comic thriller

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The Last Laugh, by Lynn Freed, reviewed by Valerie Miner for The San Francisco Chronicle. The Last Laugh is a sexagenarian...