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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 Books I read in May 2026: “Me too! I didn’t read the description very carefully, so I didn’t realise it was so focused on her mother…” Jun 8, 10:41
  • Andrew Blackman on “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger: “Hey O, Thanks for commenting. I smiled at that last part: “the awkward 2nd hand embarrassment and evaluating of something…” Jun 8, 10:39
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