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In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut Writes a Letter to People Living in 2088, Giving 7 Pieces of Advice
The mind of Kurt Vonnegut, like the protagonist of his best-known novel Slaughterhouse-Five , must have got "unstuck in time" somewhere...


The Surreal Sketches of Victor Hugo: When Coffee, Coal, and Genius Met Paper
Most people know Victor Hugo as the towering literary figure behind Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame , a man whose pen...


The Day the Tide Turned in Liberia: Samuel Doe, a Beach Firing Squad, and the Fall of Americo-Liberian Rule
It was just before dawn on 12 April 1980, when a group of barely-known army sergeants slipped into Liberia’s Executive Mansion and...
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