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15 Top Port Wines
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Lit Hub Weekly: February 21-24, 2023
TODAY: In 1983, Tennessee Williams dies at 71. “Take the letters. / Take only what you can carry.” Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky on contemporary Ukrainian poetry. | Lit Hub Ukraine In actually good nature news, certain populations of whales are rebounding. What can we learn from their recoveries? | Lit Hub Nature A brief history of the lobotomy, and how the so-called “miracle cure” impacted the Kennedys and Tennessee Williams. | Lit Hub Science “They are as welcome as a letter from home. They are as popular as pin-up girls.” How paperbacks distributed to WWII soldiers became a lifeline—and created a generation of...
Asian groups, voters in Queens challenge new City Council district maps
"A Vote Here" sign, in English, Spanish and Chinese, outside an early voting location ahead of the November election in New York City. at an early voting location at Columbia University in New York City, A lawsuit claims the redrawn boundaries disenfranchise South Asian voters. [ more › ]
TikTok Complains It’s 'Under a Cloud’ Following Its Most Recent Ban
TikTok is pushing back against the European Union for not informing the company that they were banning the app on all government devices. The EU also took steps to ban the Chinese-owned app on staff’s personal devices with corporate access, amid concerns that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is accessing user data.Read more...
Choijin Lama Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Choijin Lama Monastery is a compound encompassing five temples, pleasant gardens, and a few meandering footpaths. This historical monastery is dwarfed by the striking modern buildings towering around it. The meeting of the new and the old architecture is conflicting and harmonious at once. Built using blue bricks and topped by a wooden roof, the temples in this monastery are rare specimens of pre-revolution structures exhibiting Chinese architecture in Mongolia. After four years of construction work, the monastery became operative in 1908, but soon after its inauguration, the monastery faced an uncertain future. The advent of the Communist revolution in...