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Ivan Bunin hated everyone… well, almost everyone. Tap Water Sommelier compiles a list. Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service.  The company claims to have not considered before launch whether their new protest and strike surveillance tool could be misused. Molly White | Citation Needed Margaret Atwood: Handmaid’s Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools And […]

Over at Jane Austen’s World, Rachel Dodge has been comparing how Austen’s novels use what have now become standard romance tropes. The end of the series is the Sense and Sensibility’s (double) love triangle. Jane Austen’s World | Jane Austen and Rom Coms: Sense and Sensibility (“Love Triangles”) — We often forget that Thomas Alva […]

About 18 months ago (in the summer of 1996) I went to see Four Weddings and a Funeral at a North London cineplex. Very soon I was filled with a yearning to be doing something else (for example, standing at a bus stop in the rain); and under normal circumstances I would have walked out […]