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Cowboys, 'Injuns' and Bones

We associate the American Wild West with the hundreds of Westerns about cowboys and Red Indians. But life was tough for early settlers and gold rush prospectors. The native...

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Kaleidoscope

Memory Man Returns

David Baldacci created a very intriguing and tragic protagonist in Amos Decker. In his first Decker novel, The Memory Man (2015), he introduced a man with who cannot forget...

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Trending

My Way Of Being Political Is All In My Work

Publisher Naveen Kishore on theatre, the Indian reader, and what drives him to promote the arts Amongst one of the most universal of emotions is the strange wistfulness tha...

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Hollywood

Rihanna And Global Citizen Call On The G20 To Prioritise Education

In July, the G20 will meet in Hamburg, and Rihanna and Global Citizen need your help in the coming month to make sure education is at the top of that list. Last year, Rihan...

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Hollywood

Joan Rivers Stars In Posthumous PETA Campaign

Joan Rivers, who would have turned 84 on June 8, lives on — in new books, on QVC, and now in a PETA campaign urging animal adoption, using one of her trademark jokes....

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Festivals

Second Scout Film Festival Hits Stowe This Weekend

Those darned whippersnappers and their smartphones and television screens! Don’t they know that back in the day, we read books for entertainment! We went out and play...

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Alternative Entertainment

Women Writers Face Major Hurdles, Especially In Best Selling Genres

Sci-fi and mystery authors speak out about inequality in these male-dominated fields.You’ve probably read the stats: books by women are being reviewed more and more b...

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Alternative Entertainment

Bill Gates: Your Summer Reading List Should Include These 5 Books

Summer is a great time to escape: to the beach, to the mountains, or to the world of a great book. This year, I found myself drawn even more than usual to books that took m...

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Sustainable Development

We Need More Truth In Our Talk About Sanitation

Sopan Joshi’s “Jal Thal Mal” is a book in Hindi about the invisible connections that sustain us in our life on the planet. It shows how sanitation is not ...

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Gender

Meet The New Generation Female Comedians Who Dominate 2017

What is it really like for a woman in comedy these days? With more female stand-ups at the Edinburgh Fringe than ever before, it is about pushing forwards despite a male-he...

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