East German surveillance, reconstructed
Shredded Stasi spy documents — think The Lives of Others, but real life — are being pieced together by pattern-recognition software.
Shredded Stasi spy documents — think The Lives of Others, but real life — are being pieced together by pattern-recognition software.
“Practically everything I know about writing I learned from music.”
Sex-trade-positive arguments aren’t unique to the Postfeminist era, however passionately a boatload of women’s studies professors may wish to lay claim to them. More than a hundred years ago, in 1900, the Everleigh sisters founded a high-class brothel with the aim of elevating the industry in Chicago. They believed prostitution was a viable career, one as worthy of respect as . . .
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Donna Bowman says The Adventures of Mark Twain in claymation is a far better introduction to Twain than the “sentimental kiddie stories.”