TODAY: In 1845, Symbolist poet Tristan Corbiere is born.
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Bewitching, Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman, and Vivek Shanbhag’s Sakina’s Kiss all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
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A poignant, bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart—told through the eyes of their wondrous 10-year-old daughter.
“It is one of these really interesting and very unusual situations where we have a legend that was widely known and hugely popular throughout the Middle Ages, and then very suddenly in the middle of the 16th century, in the High Renaissance, it's just completely lost.” Researchers have finally solved a centuries-old literary cold case. | 404 Media
Alexander Chee writes about going to Denny’s: “I will feel a little more alone after that night in some way I will never understand and always try to forget.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
“Somewhere between lies the truth, that adult and child may as well be two different species for their mutual incomprehensibility.” Barry Petchesky on the otherworldly snowmen of Calvin and Hobbes. | Defector
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