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We’re away until January 4, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2020. Enjoy your holiday! I was a student in the University of Cape Town’s English department when the Ransom Center acquired J. M. Coetzee’s papers. This was in 2012, when to be a student in the English department at UCT was to be required to hold a strong, fluently expressed opinion on J. M. Coetzee, his life, his work, the position he held within the South African academy, and whether or not there was a ...

Local theater proves resilient, resourceful in year defined by pandemic, civil unrest First Folio Theatre was among the theaters that streamed previous productions in the wake of the COVID-19-related shutdowns. The Oak Brook theater streamed its 2013 premiere of "Cymbeline: A Folk Tale With Music" featuring Ryan Czerwonko, left, Kate McDermott (kneeling), Ronald Keaton and Tyler Rich. Courtesy of David Rice   Posted12/25/2020 6:00 AM During a year defined by a global pandemic and...

By Press Association 2021 Mount Stuart A marquess has been charged with allegedly breaking coronavirus legislation after reportedly travelling to his namesake Scottish island. Police Scotland launched an investigation following reports on Monday the Marquess of Bute John Crichton-Stuart and six others travelled to the Isle of Bute off the west coast of Scotland. The marquess has a home in London as well as his ancestral home of Mount Stuar...

It is one of the Christmas storys central and most enduring elements - the sighting of a bright star in the skies guiding the Wise Men to Bethlehem and heralding the birth of Jesus Christ. But the Vatican has now said it believes the glare from the Star of Bethlehem may have been caused by what is known as a "Great Conjunction" of planets, in this case bringing Venus and Jupiter in close alignment and creating an unusually bright light in the sky above the Holy Land. And the phenomenon which ...

Nude with Joyous Painting, 1994. Oil and Magna on canvas. 70 x 53 in (177.8 x 134.6 cm). Property from an Important Private American Collection. Sold for $46,242,500 on 10 July 2020 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2020 Building on the unprecedented success of ONE, in October Christie’s launched 20th Century: London to Paris, a dynamic, cross-channel conversation between two culturally vibrant cities, followed in December by 20th Century: Hong Kon...