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A celebration of American fiction from the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi is an enthusiast. In the epilogue to her book, "The Republic of Imagination," she states that she began her analysis (but, really, celebration) of American literature intending to write about 24 books. She ended up choosing three: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Babbitt" and "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." In these works

Can my dog or cat catch coronavirus?

Can pets contract coronavirus and if so can they spread it to other animals or to humans? Cats can catch flu from humans and some have caught the Covid-19 virus. And this has been backed up by laboratory evidence.

China censors 'Tiananmen' image of athletes hugging

By Derek CaiBBC News, Singapore A photo of two Chinese female athletes that made an inadvertent reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre has been censored on Chinese social media. The race numbers for Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni form "64" - a common allusion to the incident which happened on June 4.

GHOULISH DETAILS DOMINATE AS DAHMER TRIAL BEGINS

MILWAUKEE, JAN. 30 -- For almost three hours in a stunned courtroom today, two lawyers described the nightmarish life of Jeffrey L. Dahmer and asked a jury to believe that the confessed serial killer was either an uncontrollable victim of mental illness or a coldly calculating monster who sought to prolong sexual pleasure with the

James OHalloran

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