LYON, France One of the largest international crime writing festivals in the world, the Quais du Polar, just closed in Lyon, and the subject on many writers’ minds was, surprisingly, not Ukraine, though the war was ever present, but the erasure of economies, landscapes and memories in the tran.
In Samuel Johnson's last great work, "The Lives of the Poets," there is a fascinating passage about the intellect and reading habits of one of Johnson's most important literary models, 17th-century poet John Dryden.
On July 5, 1949, Sadanori Shimoyama, the president of Japanese National Railways, left his home in Tokyo on his way to his office. On the way, he instructed his driver to stop at a department store, saying he needed to shop for a wedding gift.
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