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The Wildest Supernatural Thriller Of The '90s Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Al Pacino's devil is in the details.

Inverse

Scream 3 is my second-favorite movie in the horror franchise and with Scream 7 bringing back its Ghostface, it's time everyone gives it a second chance

With just 45% on Rotten Tomatoes, Scream 3 is the least-liked film in the series – and I've never understood why

Total Film

The epic novel runs amok in Omar Musa’s Fierceland

Omar Musa’s new book, Fierceland, ranges across five distinct geographies and covers a period of some 170 years. It is told from at least ten perspectives and encompasses prose, poetry and visual art. It is, in every way, an epic endeavour.

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The Rose Field takes Philip Pullman’s ‘Dust’ to its philosophical conclusions

The Rose Field, the third and final volume in Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust trilogy is finally in the hands of his readers.

The Conversation

The 10 Best Fantasy Books About Angels

Be not afraid, and bless yourself with these fantasy books.

The Mary Sue

For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion

The poet-prophet shows us how to sustain hope and redemption in the wake of political defeat

The Guardian - UK

Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay: Here’s why English will survive

Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb “literally” in a figurative sense, as in, “That movie literally blew my mind.”

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Warren Chernaik obituary

Other lives: Professor of English at London University who urged students to think for themselves

The Guardian - UK

Radical struggles and revolution: The book unearthing the subversive history of Paradise Lost

THE READING LIST: Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes Claire Allfree

The Independent UK

Trust hopes to turn William Blake’s cottage into a museum

Campaign aims to renovate Sussex home where artist and poet wrote Jerusalem in time for 200th anniversary of his death

The Guardian - UK

Dozens of blue plaques are missing in London and English Heritage wants public's help to find them

Among the missing blue plaques are ones commemorating William Hogarth, John Milton and Joseph Lister

Evening Standard

Thorny devil: The spike-covered lizard that sucks water from sand through its skin

Thorny devils have a plethora of defenses against predators, including a fake head and a weird jerky walk.

LiveScience

Is Pavel Durov the Next Julian Assange?

The Telegram co-founder may become a free-expression martyr for the terrible crime of enabling permissionless speech.

Reason

The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review – an Eden project of her own

While a cast of literary heavyweights grace Laing’s account of her garden restoration, the real joys lie in her detailed description of the pruning and the planting and the soothing effect on her state of mind

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‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism

As he prepares to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, Akomfrah talks about fleeing Ghana aged nine, the Rwanda fiasco, and creating images that shift the dial

The Conversation

50 years later, 'The Exorcist' continues to possess Hollywood's imagination, reflecting our obsession with evil

When the “The Exorcist” premiered 50 years ago, in December 1973, some theatergoers fainted or broke down in tears. A few even vomited.

Tom’s Guide

7 best Keanu Reeves movies to watch right now

Our picks for the best Keanu Reeves movies streaming online, including The Matrix and John Wick

The Conversation

Plan to 'retain and explain' controversial statues is flawed – why we should always question our monuments

The long-awaited government guidance on the official “retain and explain” policy suggests the UK’s contested statues and monuments be retained as long as additional context is provided. But given their controversial past, how do we go about that?

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Marc Andreessen’s “Manifesto” is a 5,000-word rant—with no mention of crypto

The Andreessen Horowitz founder’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” is notable for several things—and the absence of one.

The Conversation

What are the liberal arts? A literature scholar explains

The term “liberal arts” is one of the most misunderstood terms in the public discourse on higher education today. A higher education expert once said that putting the words “liberal” and “arts” together was a “branding disaster” – one so toxic that it was undermining public support for higher education.…

Orlando Sentinel

Schools in Florida's Orange County target classics, popular novels to keep sex out of class

ORLANDO, Fla. — The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of…

The Conversation

Cormac McCarthy: a powerful writer who beautifully wrote about apocalypse and extinction

Endings, extinctions, last things preoccupied Cormac McCarthy from the start to the recent close of his 60-year career as a writer of fiction and, occasionally, drama for stage or screen. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), ends with the word “dust”. His final novel, Stella Maris (2022), allows only…

Salon

The "Red Right Hand" of "Ted Lasso"

Why use the Nick Cave song? It’s funny but it also sets up Roy as the "Peaky Blinders" crime boss of soccer

The Canberra Times

Finding paradise in a piece of history

There's a lot of olde-worlde luxury, and a touch of the paranormal, in this five-star manor.

Tribune News Service

Mark Story: Is this the year that Kentucky basketball recovers its mojo?

With apologies to 17th century English poet John Milton, the theme for Kentucky men’s college basketball’s two marquee programs since 2015 has been “Paradise Lost.”

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