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John Adams is an icon of contemporary classical music, whose name is often mentioned alongside other composers similarly rooted in the minimalist movement such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass....

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"As in her previous novels featuring private detective Jackson Brodie – Case Histories and One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson has intertwined what first seem to be many separate stories,...

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O. Henry wrote some 400 short stories in his lifetime and is often credited with popularizing short fiction. Eight years after his death in1910, friends and colleagues established an award...

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André Kertész began a career in photojournalism in 1912, when he was just eighteen years old, and continued to do so until he died in 1985. Kertesz traveled the world,...

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In State by State, editors Matt Weiland, deputy editor of the Paris Review, and Sean Wilsey, editor-at-large for McSweeney's set out to create a book modeled on the WPA state...

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