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Around holiday tables this year, millions of families will sit down to dinners of roast turkey. In the US, 46 million turkeys are eaten on Thanksgiving alone. How can the industry possibly keep up ...

The Prisoner of Ankara by Suat Derviş (1905–72) opens with its protagonist being released from jail, having served a twelve-year sentence. We are in the early years of the Turkish Republic, and Vasfi ...

The publication of the complete Granada trilogy, by the Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour (1946–2014), in Kay Heikkinen’s vivid and elegant translation, is a moment of grand culmination, rather like the ...

Sphen the gay penguin died earlier this year. He was eleven years old. He and his partner, Magic, had shared the raising of ...

At the end of Chapter III of Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Alice emerges from the Lethean wood, is promptly abandoned by ...

The Irish aptitude for storytelling has long been lauded as a national characteristic, and its outlets in different literary ...

The Ming doctor Li Shizhen’s pharmacopoeia is widely known in China, and the man himself has appeared on postage stamps and ...