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Today in books and literature: The plot to kill Salman Rushdie may not have existed, The Telegraph takes a look at what President Obama's read since taking office, and Oxford finally has a Quidditch team to call its own.
Actor Naseeruddin Shah feels that literary festivals play an important role in spreading awareness about books among the new generation.
Portsmouth daily The News gave over its front page today to mark the 200th birthday of one of the city’s most famous sons – Charles Dickens. The celebrated novelist was born on 7 February 1812 in Portsmouth’s Mile End Terrace, now part of Old Commercial Road.
Hamilton’s chief librarian of almost 18 years, Ken Roberts, is approaching the end of his chapter with the public library in May.
After a one-year hiatus, the Withers Stakes, an event older than the Kentucky Derby for 3-year-olds, will return to the New York racing calendar at Aqueduct on Saturday for the 132nd time.
Despite threats against Salman Rushdie, the Jaipur Literature Festival was still an eye-opening and heartening experience for Akash Kapur.
Jill Eikeberry will appear in “Selected Shorts” Saturday at Diana Wortham Theatre. She was most recentlyl seein in the Charlize Theron black comedy “Young Adult.”
‘Tension City’
Stage: Cynthia Nixon laughs and laughs and laughs in one late scene in Wit . The actress even seems genuinely tickled, too. (Maybe she's reveling in the controversy she stirred up in the past week, about her contention that she chose to be a lesbian.) Laughing may not be as hard to pull off for an actor as crying – though, it should be noted, Nixon also succeeds at that here, during a few brief ...
Ever since “White Girl Problems” launched on Twitter more than a year ago, it popularized a simple formula: complaint #problem. The kvetching is catching. A whole online community has sprung up to ven
