Babylon Revisited
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'But it hadn't been given for nothing. It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an...
The Clockwork Man
Edwin Vincent Odle and Annalee Newitz
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Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork...
A Celebration of Animation: The 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters in Television History
Martin Gitlin and Joe Wos
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Few morose thoughts permeate the brain when Yosemite Sam calls Bugs Bunny a "long-eared galut" or a...
Chariots of Fire (1981)
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In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined...
Stephen Morris recommended Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk in Music (curated)
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
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Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a...
Older: But Not Wiser
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In the realm of amusing, deadpan greetings cards, Cath Tate is the original and best. In her...
Josephine and I
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Josephine Baker: captivating performer, political activist and international icon, who lived from...
The Land Agent
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"A genuine tour-de-force" - Lesley McDowell on 'An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful'. Palestine,...