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In one of Split Fiction’s science fiction levels, Cutie—an elephant plush from It Takes Two—is seen standing on top of a pet store. Presumably, in this story, the crown-wear ...

Since A Thousand Blows hit our screens, Mary Carr, the beautiful Victorian female gang boss, is in all the newspapers again.

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I’ve been an Ernest Hemingway aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read the Library of America’s collection of the ...