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Book to Screen: The Princess Bride
One of my core memories is the first time I watched The Princess Bride. I was with my family one year, right after the New ...
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with novels from William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway
This year’s crop of newly public artistic creations lacks the landmark vibes of last year’s entrance of Mickey Mouse into the ...
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‘Gabriel’s Moon,’ by William Boyd, will keep readers guessing
William Boyd’s 18th novel gets underway with a formative event — or more precisely, a transformative tragedy. It is 1936 in Oxfordshire, and 6-year-old Gabriel Dax is getting ready to go to ...
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Niall Williams’ ‘Time of the Child,’ set in Ireland, is one of the year’s finest novels
To use a word that appears often in the novel, "Time of the Child" is a miracle.Niall Williams' gorgeous, wry and humane book ...
Daniel Craig’s turn as queer writer and an ‘unfilmable’ book brought to life – what you should watch, read and see this week
The book is a sprawling work of genius, responsible for popularising magical realism as a literary genre and winning García Márquez a Nobel prize. Surprisingly, despite its popularity, it has never ...
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Julian Morgan releases book of William Shakespeare puzzles
A new book of puzzles based on the works of William Shakespeare has been released. The book, titled 'William Shakespeare Puzzles,' was written by Ryedale-based Julian Morgan, a member of two teams at ...
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Reading Public Library accepts rare set of collected works of William Penn published in 1726
A two-volume set containing the writings of William Penn and published in London in 1726 has found a new permanent home in ...