literature
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I always quote “beauty begets beauty,” and I can tell he does not read any literature or visit museums to stay sharp.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
That means avoiding “pointers,” wordings that could lead to multiple correct responses, and “traps,” such as referring to a creepy scientist from Gothic literature other than Victor Frankenstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Cecilia Rosas, a Brazilian researcher and translator of Russian literature, hailed the interest in the classics on social media.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Huger wrote for instructions to Postmaster General Amos Kendall, as well as New York Postmaster Samuel Gouverneur, from whose office the offending literature had been shipped.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
"I was simply trying to find out if she came from a family that loved good literature."
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Chesterton, John Buchan, Rafael Sabatini and even Sax Rohmer, among a score of others, were — and are — thrilling storytellers, as well as the founders of our modern genre literatures.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
Now, a lot of people who have emigrated to the U.S. are bringing their literatures into English.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
This time around I’m fascinated with the lineage of oral literatures.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Every inch of visible surface of the board had been decorated, with four somewhat gorgeous-looking columns of quotations from a variety of the world’s literatures.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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