Sons without Fathers: A New Version of Chekhov's Platonov
Anton Chekhov and Helena Kaut-Howson
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"Village schoolteacher Platonov is a man who is loved by women. Despite his best intentions he is...
Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
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Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource...
The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire
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Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in the late fifteenth century opened up new economic and cultural...
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly...
Casablanca (1942)
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Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such...
Always Sublime, Never Ridiculous
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Three years after her diagnosis for breast cancer, Sharon Rose was at rock bottom. Although she was...
Sense and Sensibility
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"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present....
Royal Assassin
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'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The second volume in Robin Hobb's...
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives
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In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or...
The Crew
Joseph Kessel and Andre Naffis-Sahely
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The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during the First World War consisted of just two men: a...