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Fun Home (2006)
Alison Bedchel’s memoir covers growing up in a funeral home with a closeted father.
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Shakespeare in a Divided America (2020)
A few years ago, I read author James Shapiro’s Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shapiro believed Shakespeare wrote the plays that had his name on them, but took the book as a means of examining the many people over the past two centuries or so who, for a wide variety Read more…
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The Invention of Murder (2014)
A social historian looks at the fascination with violent crime and death in Victorian England.
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Scythe (2016)
Two teenagers become apprentices to a scythe, the only means of death in a future society.
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This Is Shakespeare (2019)
Oxford University professor Emma Smith offers her take on some of the works of William Shakespeare.
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The Knight of the Swords (1971)
The last member of a dead race goes out seeking revenge and finds something much bigger instead.
