August 2011
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The Atlantic says The Help softens segregation
In a tough review of the film based on Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, the Atlantic’s Alyssa Rosenberg writes that the book exchanges the harsh realities of segregation for a feel-good narrative about a progressive white woman.
Have any of you read the book? Do you agree? Disagree?
Read the review here.
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Marvel unveils new, multiracial Spiderman →
publicradiointernational:
Marvel unveils new, multiracial Spiderman:
Miles Morales takes over as Spidey for Peter Parker. He definitely has
big shoes to fill, but is that cliche applicable…
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Was Albert Camus Killed by the KGB? →
msodradek:
The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has now suggested that Soviet spies might have been behind the crash. The theory is based on remarks by Giovanni Catelli, an Italian academic and poet, who noted that a passage in a diary written by the celebrated Czech poet and translator Jan Zábrana, and published as a book entitled Celý život, was missing from the Italian translation.
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Local Buying Karma
“I’ve been looking for this book for years,” a customer told me this morning. “I was just going to buy it on Amazon, but I happened to be over here for a meeting and thought I’d stop in,” she said, clinging happily to the book. “I love it when stuff like this happens.”
