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Good ran an article Wednesday about a growing trend on Facebook that suggests users are “defriending” people who are not in some way actually linked to their lives. Shocking! The trend,… 1 / Read more »

Superman: the Man of Steel, a shining example of justice and honor, and, apparently, a sexist dolt at times. HappyPlace has posted a series of seventeen vintage Superman comic books… Read more »

The news of the seizure of three packages carrying roughly 11 pounds of marijuana being shipped to the good folks at St. Martin’s Press has spread far and wide. It… Read more »

Digitizing Shakespeare Writers on Twitter, even “serious” ones Remembering the work of Christine Brooke-Rose  Omar Little as Ol’ Dirty Bastard Talking poetry with Alice Walker Steven Millhauser is $20,000 richer… Read more »

Forty-five years ago Oxford University Press published the first edition of William H. McNeill’s survey, A World History. It’s still in print. Now in its fourth edition, the book has… Read more »