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Ben Watson, a Cider Expert Known as Brother Apple, Has Died at 64.

Ben Watson, also known as Brother Apple, played a pivotal role in turning cider into a thriving slice of America’s craft-beverage movement. He has died at 64.

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Author of Seminal Anticolonial Novel, Dies at 98

“The real secret to beating envy is to realize that envy, in addition to being a great vice and an internal poison, is a drag”

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Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86

The problem with pandemic novels: Their authors were scared, unmoored, and used their fiction as a staging ground for psychological parables

The problem with pandemic novels: Their authors were scared, unmoored, and used their fiction as a staging ground for psychological parables

Habermas believed that the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worrisomely thin and uninformed

From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worrisomely thin and uninformed

Do You Know the Books That Inspired These Films?

Do You Know the Books That Inspired These Films?

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