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Reading for the New Year: Part Three

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Stephen A. Smith Mistakenly Calls Texans WR ‘Charlie Kirk,’ Instantly Apologizes

Stephen A. Smith was on the ESPN airwaves Tuesday morning when he had quite the slip of the tongue while breaking down the Texans’ playoff win over the Steelers … mistakenly referring to Houston’s ...

It takes many ghosts to make a story: how Maggie O'Farrell’s Hamnet takes from – and mistakes – Shakespeare

The opening of Hamnet echoes that of Hamlet. In the novel’s first scene, Hamnet explores an empty house. O’Farrell gives him ...

She was the aristocrat who left her family, fought in the Spanish Civil War and was a through and through communist - the most maverick Mitford of all!

A new biography of Jessica Mitford portrays an upper class communist who fought for the poor - but travelled with 13 ...