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The author of 'The Handmaid’s Tale' is already looking forward to the adaptation of its sequel, 'The Testaments' — and to ...
The multi-hyphenate has been hungry for a role and project like this for a long time, but as she tells IndieWire, even she's ...
The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society.
A 35-page list compiled by the Florida Department of Education outlines hundreds of books banned across the state's 73 school districts during the 2023-2024 academic year. The report lists the ...
In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being ... slavery endorsed and practiced by men like Thomas Jefferson and Robespierre, even as they wrote extensively on the virtues of modernity and ...
Hegel’s dissatisfaction with the revolutions he surveys comes down in almost every instance to their otherworldliness or estrangement from reality, whether we are speaking of Jesus or Robespierre ...
In Revolutionary France, Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a passionate ... might want to put TikTok aside, crack a history book, and learn from this cautionary tale. The lawyer and politician ...
Nearly 100 books were temporarily pulled from school library shelves in South Carolina's Beaufort County; most of the books were eventually returned after a review. The ban campaign kicked off ...
Research proves the countless mental health benefits of reading, but still most people are choosing screen-time over picking up a book when it comes to entertainment. Even in schools, gone are the ...
Potty training is both an exciting and intimidating milestone, and when parents need some help to get started, the best potty training books can provide the confidence and tools to accomplish the ...
No matter where you live in the United States, here’s how to give those old books a new home. Most public libraries accept book donations for their shelves or as part of a book sale to benefit ...
The historian Colin Jones has a gift for examining events afresh. Here it is the 24 hours in which Maximilien Robespierre tumbled from being the French Revolution’s most feared ideologue to an outlaw ...