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Month: June 2025

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Borges Marathon, Part 20: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero

Treachery and heroism blur in this meticulously plotted short story by Jorge Luis Borges, with noticeable echoes from history and literature.
21 June 2025
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All the Books on One Shelf

How would you approach the task of presenting all of English literature on a single shelf display? Here's how one Serbian bookshop…
14 June 2025

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  • Andrew Blackman on Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood: “Ah, that’s interesting to hear, Bill. This novel felt quite autobiographical to me, but I don’t know anything about Atwood’s…” Nov 11, 11:17
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