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Commentary: Clinging to old classics can go hand in hand with banning books

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante and Dickens.

Los Angeles Times

TV Tinsel: Scary season brings much to get the heart pounding

Just when we thought we were safe, it’s that time of year again when goblins, ghosts and ghouls are prowling the streets and hiding under beds. With COVID-19 in retreat, trick-and-treaters will be out again extorting their goodies, and TV is brewing up its spookiest gruel yet.

Tribune News Service

‘The real life of Athens is here’ – hidden gems beyond and beneath the Acropolis

The Acropolis Museum’s underground lab, the ancient Hadrian aqueduct and an arts festival in an old factory offer a more personal view of the Greek capital

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The Simpsons predictions for 2023 that will give you chills

The long-running series has famously built a reputation for forecasting our future.

Irish Mirror

Five books you'll like if you love The Odyssey

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

The Conversation

Anne Heche looks cheerful in final photos before actress' fatal car crash

Anne Heche died on Friday 12 aged 53 after she drove her Mini Cooper into a two-storey home in Los Angeles. The Donnie Brasco actress had traces of narcotics in her blood, according to officials

Daily Mirror

Anne Heche's son hopes mum is 'free from pain' as actress is declared legally dead

Anne Heche's son Homer has spoken out following the news his mother has been declared legally dead

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Anne Heche, TV, film and stage actor, dies at 53 from injuries sustained in LA car crash

LOS ANGELES — Anne Heche, the Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor whose work in “Six Days Seven Nights,” “Another World” and dozens of other projects dovetailed with a groundbreaking romance with Ellen DeGeneres that challenged homophobia in Hollywood, has died. She was 53.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: America needs a Declaration of Independents

Whether one watches Fox News or MSNBC, reads The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, it has become difficult to view the United States as anything but a game of political dodgeball, with two opposing teams that loath one another trying to knock the other out by whistling…

Tribune News Service

The Simpsons' Krusty Burger pop-up coming to Dublin

You can expect Flaming Moes, Krusty Burgers, Super Squishees, and lots more

Dublin Live

Watch This Ukrainian Guy Fit A Chainsaw Carb To A Honda Dio

Ukrainian YouTube wrencher Samodel uses some good old DIY skills to mount the carburetor from a Stihl chainsaw to a ratty Honda Dio scooter.

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Truck driver Homero Zamorano appears in court as documents suggest broken A/C caused migrant deaths

Mr Zamorano is charged with charged smuggling undocumented migrants resulting in death

The Independent UK

To read or not to read? Is that the question?

In June this year, a six-month-old interview went viral.

The Conversation

Everyone made the same hilarious ‘Simpsons’ joke about the Broncos getting sold

Thanks, Hank Scorpio!

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Understanding Greek mythology, with the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins invites you to discover the fascinating story of Greek mythology, in a masterclass that gets to the very root of what myths are, where their purpose lies, and what we can do with themOnline workshopDate: Tuesday 2 August 2022Time: 6.30pm-8.30pm (BST)

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Tallying the dead is one thing, giving them names would take an 'inexhaustible voice,' as the ancient Greeks knew

The official count of Americans lost to COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million. It is the latest grim milestone that has marked the progression of deaths and infections since the virus took hold in the U.S. in March 2020.

The Guardian - UK

‘What are our lives for?’: a philosopher answers kids’ existential questions

What happens when Plato mixes with playtime? Philosopher Scott Hershovitz answers the questions that confound children and adults alike

Tribune News Service

Murder, revenge, power: Don Winslow reveals classical inspirations for crime novel ‘City On Fire’

In the mid-’90s, Don Winslow had already published a handful of novels when he decided to fill the gaps in his literary education by reading through a list of the great books of world literature.

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‘The Simpsons’ came for hypebeasts with its Supreme parody and nailed it

A fictional 'Slipreme' brand stands in for all the highs and lows of streetwear and sneakers.

The Independent UK

The Simpsons viewers divided over ‘Joe Rogan’ episode about cancel culture

‘Simpsons Joe Rogan making me spiral,’ wrote one viewer

The Guardian - UK

I lost my underwear on the trail of Odysseus in Ithaca, Greece

Research for a new guide book meant climbing a rock face on the Greek island crucial in Homer’s story, then crawling through spiky undergrowth. An epic in itself

Daily Record

ITV The Chase viewers in stitches as The Simpsons seemed to take over latest episode

The Simpsons and The Chase fans were in their element as the two worlds collided on ITV - but they were gutted there was no Homer.

Liverpool Echo

The Chase line-up leaves confused fans questioning whereabouts of 'missing' player

Bradley Walsh was surprised when he spotted the connection between the players

France 24

'Ulysses' at 100: The key role played by Paris in the birth of a masterpiece

It shocked, it stunned, it was even burned and banned in America and Britain. Now the epic novel "Ulysses" by literature's original bad boy James Joyce is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. A hundred years ago this week, it was published in Paris on his…

Salon

Heeding the lessons of Joyce's "Ulysses"

Joyce's great novel, 100 years later, warns us off nationalism and idolatry, brings us together in life and death

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