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Australia: Writers' festival called off amid boycott

The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...

Jan 13Deutsche Welleculture

Here's what Barbie looked like the year you were born

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: This combination photo shows the he toy doll Barbie in her various incarnations at Leuralla NSW toy and railway museum, as the iconic doll approaches her 50th birthhday May...

Jan 13Business InsiderEntertainment

The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260113-hello-hiya-aloha-what-our-greetings-reveal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657296 Points: 4 # Comments: 1...

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I'm glad I made time to get to know my grandmother as an adult. Learning about her 99 years helped me see the world differently.

The author's grandmother lived to 99. Courtesy of Tracy Granzyk My grandmother lived to 99, and I got to know her better as an adult than I did as a child. I'm glad we spent that time together and tha...

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Vampyre: A Costa Rican Folktale Merges Dracula Fact and Fiction

Conceptual designer and comic book creator Ricardo Delgado made his mark on Dracula with 2021's Dracula of Transylvania , a book that re-imagined Bram Stoker's iconic villain as "a complete horror." N...

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Why millennials are yearning for 2016 all over Instagram

People are taking to Instagram to reminisce 2016 in all its fishnet-stocking glory. Melodie Jeng/Getty Images 2016 is so back — at least on Instagram. Millennials are putting up pictures of them...

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China’s Ningbo cuisine; Hong Kong goes Back to the Past: 7 Lifestyle highlights

We have selected seven Lifestyle stories from the past seven days that resonated with our readers. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. ‘Umami, salty, stinky...

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Danny Boyle confirms Jack O'Connell's cult leader in '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' was inspired by British TV presenter Jimmy Savile

Jack O'Connell in "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple." Sony In "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," Jack O'Connell plays Sir Jimmy Crystal, a strange cult leader. The character and his fol...

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How to Navigate Pierce Brown's Red Rising Sci-Fi Series

In the future, the human race has been divided into 14 different color castes that determine every individual's role and placement in the hierarchical structure of society. This underlying idea is at ...

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'Custodes Are Not Space Marines' — Games Workshop Addresses 'The Telemon in the Room' and Explains Warhammer Lore Behind New Female Miniatures

Games Workshop has published a Warhammer lore explanation for the existence of female Custodes following a new miniature range announcement on Friday. During a preview livestream, the British company ...

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The Demon of Beausoleil Combines Demonic Exorcism and Romance

Oni Press is starting off the new year strong with a new graphic novel called The Demon of Beausoleil. Even though it deals with demons and exorcism, this book is actually a surprisingly lighthearted ...

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Gets a New Book Cover Ahead of the HBO Series Premiere

HBO's latest Game of Thrones spin-off series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , is kicking off next week. Alongside the new series, Penguin Random House has just released a new version of George R.R. M...

Jan 13IGNEntertainment