Literature
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Review: Mohsin Hamid's 5th novel is a fever dream of a story
Aug 02, 2022 7:00 am - 'œThe Last White Man'ť by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead) Anders wakes up to find he's no longer white. After confiding in his friend, Oona, the two discover this is not an iso...
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Review: How to stop industrial farming from ruining Earth
Aug 02, 2022 7:00 am - 'œRegenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet,'ť by George Monbiot (Penguin Random House) Cruising past farmlands in America - and elsewhere in the world -...
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Stephen King testifies for government in books merger trialAug 02, 2022 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Bestselling author Stephen King gingerly stepped up to the witness stand Tuesday in a federal antitrust trial. Tracing his own history, he laid out a p...
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Book review: 'Proving Ground' profiles first women programmers
Jul 30, 2022 7:20 am - "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Supercomputer" by Kathy Kleiman (Grand Central Publishing) When the w...
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Geneva Shakespeare in the Park presents 'The Tempest'Jul 27, 2022 6:00 am - Magical characters, plots of revenge, comic foils and young love share the stage in Geneva's Shakespeare in the Park production of "The Tempest" on Saturday, July 30, pe...
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Review: 'Proving Ground' profiles first women programmers
Jul 26, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - 'œProving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World's First Supercomputer,'ť by Kathy Kleiman (Grand Central Publishing) When th...
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Book review: 'Hatchet Island' a mystery with a contrived solution
Jul 26, 2022 6:00 am - "Hatchet Island" by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) Stacey Stevens's old college roommate, now working at a bird sanctuary off the Maine coast, is in a panic. Lob...
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Book review: 'Helltown' shines light on Cape Cod serial killer
Jul 24, 2022 11:00 pm - "Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod" by Casey Sherman (Sourcebooks) True crime is all the rage these days. Books, movies, document...
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Review: Bourland autopsies the princess myth with precision
Jul 18, 2022 7:00 am - 'œThe Force of Such Beauty'ť by Barbara Bourland (Dutton) It's about time someone took the princess story that's normalized to girls and autopsy it with absolute precisi...
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Elgin Donor Club's annual book review luncheon returns Sept. 22Jul 17, 2022 11:00 pm - The Donor Club of Elgin is excited to announce the return of their annual book review luncheon, after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. It will be held Thursday, Sept....