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Caroline Alexander’s World War II aviation history deals with Allied efforts to get supplies to China, a mission hampered ...

And first, a closer look at NYRB editorial director Edwin Frank’s new ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century ...

For the second time in a year, the Iowa Department of Education invited the public to comment on proposed rules schools will ...

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So the first thing she did was pick up her novels to get a sense of ... She had launched the page not too long before her diagnosis as a way to promote “Dragonfly,” a spy story set largely during ...

Her grandfather married Douglas David Smith's mother, who at this stage had lost both her son and husband, before remarrying ... the first licensed dig for a WW2 aircraft in NI.

TEHRAN/JERUSALEM - Israel announced on Saturday it launched "precise and targeted" pre-dawn airstrikes on Iranian military targets, in response to Tehran's Oct 1 missile attacks. This marks the ...

In books like The Handmaid’s Tale, we see Atwood challenge power structures and scrutinize gender politics, but never without an eye on the personal, the intimate and the absurd. Atwood’s ...

Kon Ichikawa's 1956 war film The Burmese Harp is hailed as one of the genre's most impactful works, and it was inspired by a ...