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![Fans leave tokens at Jack Kerouac’s gravesite in Lowell’s Edson Cemetery.PATRICIA HARRIS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE/PATRICIA HARRIS](https://i0.wp.com/clippermedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Jacks-grave.jpeg?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1)
Jack Kerouac’s hometown celebrates the centennial of his birth
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Making sense of Hannah Arendt
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Obituary: Marie-Claire Blais – Author (82)
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Review: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather (1913)
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Watch: Anthony Burgess (documentary)
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Gertrude Stein’s memoir of the ‘lost generation’
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Sylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death?
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Excerpt: The Vietnam War
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Obituary: William F. Nolan – Prolific SciFi Writer (Logan’s Run) (93)
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Obituary: Athan Theoharis, Used FOIA to reveal F.B.I. Abuses (84)
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Obituary: Haunani-Kay Trask – Hawai’ian poet, activist (71)(2021)
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Obituary: John Sacret Young, ‘China Beach’ co-creator and ‘West Wing’ writer (75)
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Poets, fighters and dreamers: Kurdish women tell their own stories a new collection
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The Fake Empire
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Stephen Fry: You Have No Free Will
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John Milton sells the copyright to Paradise Lost for £10 (1667)
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Book: Billy Wilder: From poor Austrian journalist to Hollywood superstar
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Read: Rickie Lee Jones – Chronicles of an American Troubadour
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