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Kenya’s camel bookmobile needs donations

When I first mentioned the camel library service a few years back, I had no idea how many people rely on it. Since then, author Masha Hamilton has accompanied the camels on trips through Kenya’s isolated Northeastern Province, “near the unstable border with Somalia,” during a drought, and returned with photos and a video showing the crowds of people who . . .

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28 artists, 2 saints

“Like Sontag, like every great critic, [Joan] Acocella is subjective, uncompromising.” (Don’t miss Acocella’s 2005 essay on Hilary Mantel.)

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Frank (and justified) fears

Correspondence and official papers reveal the desperate efforts of Anne Frank’s family to gain entry to the U.S. or Cuba before they were forced into hiding.

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Orwell & Buddicom

George Orwell’s childhood friend and sweetheart, Jacintha Buddicom, may have omitted the truth about their falling-out from her 1974 memoir.

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