A 27 pound lobster has been caught off the coast of Maine. Now, who’s going to be the first to come up with a 50 pound dab of butter?
The Best Case for Cloning
Highlighting the Handmaid
“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” BookRiot did us all a service by finding out the 10 most highlighted passages of (the e-book edition of) Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. You must also read our own Edan Lepucki on reading and re-reading Atwood.
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The Bolshoi is Back
If consecutive profiles in The New York Times and The New York Review of Books are any indication, the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre is a very big deal. To celebrate from the comfort of your chair, however, you can listen to the overture from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera The Voyevoda, which opened in the Bolshoi in 1869.
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“Forsterian-by-way-of-the-Beatles”
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Avatar in Russia
James Cameron just can't win with the Reds. Not just the Chinese communists, but the Russians, as well, have taken issue with Avatar's politics.
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