A National Short Story Month reading list from Oxford World’s Classics

In this month’s Oxford World’s Classics reading list, we decided to celebrate National Short Story Month by selecting some of favourite story ...

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Viral Gen. James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is ... A Must Read

Business Insider May 09

In the run up to Marine Gen. James Mattis deployment to Iraq in 2004, a colleague (presumably a junior) wrote to him asking about the importance of ...

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Open Road to Publish Ebooks by Novelist and Historian Mary Renault

Digital Book World May 07

Open Road Integrated Media Launches Ebooks from Award-Winning Author Mary Renault Open Road Will Digitally Publish, Distribute, and Market a ...

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Claire Messud's Furious Follow-Up

Wall Street Journal Apr 26

An interview with Claire Messud, the author of "The Emperor's Children," about her new novel's misfit heroine.

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The Klout Score of 1903: A Statistical Study of Eminent Men

mental_floss May 10

How do you measure influence? What is notability? It might seem that before the social ranking site Klout came along to assign people numbers by ...

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Macedonian police hold 17 over antiquities looting

The Associated Press May 01

SKOPJE, Macedonia — Macedonian police say they have carried out raids across the country and arrested 17 people, including two state museum ...

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Las Cruces Style: Missing May days with mom

Las Cruces Sun-News May 12

It's been four decades, but sometimes, especially in May, it still hits me. It's a tsunami of sorrow that ebbs and flows, and sometimes seems almost ...

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