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Frederick Forsyth, British author of the thriller ‘The Day of the Jackal,’ dies at 86
Frederick Forsyth, the British author of 'The Day of the Jackal' and other thrillers, has died after a brief illness. He has ...
Frederick Forsyth, Master of the Geopolitical Thriller, Dies at 86
He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a ...
William Kentridge Reflects on What It Means to Be a South African Artist
I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and neither by ...
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Here’s How the Met Raised $70 Million to Revamp Its African and Oceanic Galleries. (It Wasn’t Easy.)
The Met's $70 million Michael C. Rockefeller Wing opens with funding from Per Skarstedt, Adam Lindemann, and George Economou.
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The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age
How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of ...
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MODERN CURRICULUM PRESS, INC.
MODERN CURRICULUM PRESS, INC., (MCP) was an educational materials publisher founded in BEREA in 1963 by Alice Lorenz-Baer (see ALICE D. BAER) to provide reading programs for kindergarten through third ...
British writer Bernardine Evaristo receives accolade for breaking literary boundaries
British writer Bernardine Evaristo has won the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award for her “transformative impact on literature.” ...