While radio and television have generally fallen short in memorializing the dead, there are blogs, zines, and commercial websites devoted to dying, and personal web pages and online videos have all helped democratize death.
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Sam Roberts,
Longreads,
11 Aug. 2026
In Athens, a walk around the Varvakios central market is a must; Hyper Hypo is a cool art and design bookshop worth the visit, whose zines line Ace’s walls.
People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.
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Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2026
It is anticipated that all IEEE periodicals will be included in the Integrity Hub screening by the end of this year.
By the end of the night, Chicago had nine in total as part of a 17-3 rout that cemented August 2026 as one for the record books for the North Siders.
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Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
1 Sep. 2026
Chase said the acquisition marked an expansion of the library’s collecting interests beyond its millions of rare books, manuscripts and historical items spanning from the 11th through the 21st centuries.
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Anthony Solorzano,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Sep. 2026
As the historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway reported in the book Merchants of Doubt, the institute strategically refused to publish in journals subject to independent peer review.
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Matthew Sun,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2026
With Diane Lane narrating from Eleanor’s journals during that time, Making Marie Antoinette transcends a behind-the-scenes special and becomes a much more intimate look into the artistry of a mother and daughter in conversation with each other.
But there was a time when comic-book heroes appeared on movie screens only sparingly — particularly between the waning days of old serials and the premiere of Superman in 1978.
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Jesse Hassenger,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Aug. 2026
Romance stories and drama thrillers are still the dominant genres for short-form serials and recurring series, but that mix is changing.
Take bills and receipts to the office, shoes to the closet, stacks of magazines to the recycle bin, used tissues to the trash, and dishes to the kitchen.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 Aug. 2026
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