Since coming to Barnes & Noble, in 2019, Daunt, a very English Londoner, has had the curious experience of successfully remaking the book business in places like Wichita, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2026
In the early ‘80s, the singer was already obscuring his Blackness with makeup (prior to remaking his features with plastic surgery).
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Carolina A. Miranda,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Oct. 2026
Indeed, Chinese authorities have already begun refashioning the tools of their security state in response.
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Carl Minzner,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Oct. 2026
Kingsoft Cloud is refashioning itself into an artificial intelligence cloud player — a move that should drive its shares higher, according to Morgan Stanley.
With her knack for devising novel solutions to seemingly insoluble problems, no one was better suited for the job.
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Dean Robbins,
Space.com,
18 Oct. 2026
Mungiu may have a less sadistic streak and a more active camera, but the two filmmakers share a particular commitment to narrative indeterminacy, devising intricate yet incomplete crime-story plots that function broadly as sociopolitical allegories.
Trump choices could prove costly Republicans tried to buck historical precedent — a president’s party almost always loses seats during the midterms — with an aggressive redistricting effort aimed at creating a more favorable congressional map.
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Jill Colvin,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Nov. 2026
On the title track Chen reaches for the psaltery (a kind of zither without frets), creating a meandering, medieval atmosphere whose ubiquitous electronic background buzz foreshadows the biting screams and blistering bass to come.
Some of Auni’s functions—such as reading sales statements, analyzing data, and visualizing results—can happen offline on low-cost phones, without making cloud queries.
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IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Nov. 2026
Throughout the early 1960s, under the direction of Noyes, IBM was busily visualizing the coming information age, seeking to give computers a cultural form that would be legible to the public.
Swift, who was deeply learned, was envisaging a nightmare world in which reading and writing — the essential foundation of wit and wisdom — are replaced by a flashy simulation of human knowledge.
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Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
8 Sep. 2026
Gufram and Snarkitecture’s Sculpted Mirror In envisaging the Sculpted Mirror for Gufram, Snarkitecture founders designers Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham carefully studied the theme of reflective surfaces.
The two planes, originating in Bergamo, Italy, and Dublin, Ireland, were inspected by officers of the Specialized Counter-Terrorism Unit after landing in Sofia.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Nov. 2026
Indeed, a consistent theme of Rogers’s campaign has been the implication that El-Sayed is a tool for shadowy forces originating in the East.
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