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Duke University Press News
Duke University Press is one of the leading English-language academic presses. On their site, you’ll find book announcements, essays, interviews, and other resources for curious readers, students, and scholars.
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Leonard Cohen Has Left Us
Tom Hawking on the death of Leonard Cohen: “It is one of life’s great ironies that wisdom comes only with experience, and it reaches its apogee just as we are deprived of the chance to use it. But Leonard Cohen, at least, has set his learnings down in words, and song.”
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Women Without Hats
Miriam Mandel Levi, a feminist in an Orthodox Jewish community, writes about a lifetime of struggling with the requirement to cover one’s hair and her ultimate decision to leave hats behind.
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I Would Rather Sit on a Pumpkin…
Clara Lucille on solitude’s restorative properties: “And yet, for solitude to find its value, it must be broken. Solitude is most effective when it is short.”
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A Month Made of Art: Celebrating InkTober
Stories, satire, and selfies: you’ll find it all in this InkTober roundup.
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Happy International Internet Day (Plus: Cats!)
October 29, 1969: we sent the first tiny bit of data from one computer to another, and the world was never the same.
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Postcards from a Bookshelf: Connecting to Readers with Translated Books
Each month in 2017, author Ann Morgan will send a translated book to a reader around the world.