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Robert Caro: ‘The more facts you collect, the closer you come to the truth’
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The Proust of science fiction. Gene Wolfe , author of Catholic-tinged, modernist-leaning pulp fiction, died on Sunday. He was 87
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The earliest limerick did not come from Limerick. It was in Latin and, far from being dirty, it was a call to prayer
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Shakespeare relied on hundreds of books as source material. Yet we have no description of his library or a record of its dispersal when he died
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