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1835Courbe indiquant, aux différens âges, les degrés du penchant au crime / du talent littéraire -- Force de l'homme aux différens Siécles.
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2019This exhibition visually reinterprets literary classics
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2019How to build a dæmon: Behind the scenes of the BBC’s His Dark Materials
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2010David Pearson's Cormac McCarthy Series
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2014Publication: Granta's new Japanese-themed issue is a stunning collection of words and pictures
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2017Photographer Hollie Fernando on how the Pre-Raphaelites inspired her work for Laura Marling
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2012Toronto newspaper digitises the work of 20-year-old reporter Ernest Hemingway
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2013Bookshelf: Jan Buchczik gives us an insight into his favourite books
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2013Bookshelf: Extraordinary set designer Anna Lomax shows us her top 5 reads
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2014Beautiful book documents the views out of famous writers' windows
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2017Andrew Khosravani’s film explores the relationship between Sartre and Camus
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2011Werkplaats Typografie: Mary Shelley Facsimile Library
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2014Publication: Illustrators and writers come together for special new book
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2013A Week On Monday: Christopher Isenberg of Victory Journal talks Tom Wolfe and poker
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2014James Bollen discusses his stunning photographic project about J.G. Ballard
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2014The top five books of Dazed and Confused Editor, Isabella Burley
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2020Teju Cole on photographing Switzerland, instead of adding to the “endless books about Mexico”
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1969The Rocks Cry Out
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1968Cities Burning
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Study of typography - Little Dorritka
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2014Illustration: José Muñoz turns Camus' L'Étranger into an illustrated masterpiece
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2012Bookshelf: Submarine author Joe Dunthorne shows us his brilliant book collection
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2019Marion Jdanoff’s book Guerre is a touching portrayal of friendship through illness
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2014Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton on new book Women in Clothes
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2020Sue Murphy on how books are windows into intimate worlds that we never knew existed
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2012Sam Winston: Romeo and Juliet
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2013Brilliant blog collects haikus from New York Times articles
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1930Eric Gill
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2026China online literature timeline
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2014Bookshelf: One half of Four Corners books, it's Elinor Jansz and her top five reads
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2008Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field
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2018Bottom's dream LCCN2012645176
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2024Machado de Assis poster in Manaus, Brazil
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2010Dave Eggers
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2011David Foster Wallace: Federer as Religious Experience
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2014Fascinating interview with art editor of the Paris Review, Charlotte Strick
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2016Somesuch publishes its first print compendium of essays and short fiction
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2017“The great thing about this book is you don’t have to read it”: sculptor Wilfrid Wood on his favourite books
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2010Raymond Carver Poetry
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2019A look at London Review of Books’ cover archive over the past 40 years
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2014Illustration: Ana Albero’s spectacular work with hints of Twin Peaks, Salinger and Jean Seberg
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1810Portrait of Willem Bilderdijk
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2017Lucky Peach comes to an end with a jam-packed “best of” final issue
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2013Bookshelf: The best five sci-fi books of skateboard artist Fergus Purcell
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2019Writer and educator Ken Hollings outlines the cheap paperbacks that were his earliest inspirations
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2015Sunny, funny, California cool-oozing artist Steven Harrington on his fav books
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