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Think the comic book giant invented the concept of an extended universe? Think again: interconnected storytelling is a literary tradition centuries in the making. 

, exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 22–August 1, 2021 Nearly four decades after her death, American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) has received the major museum retrospective she has long deserved, Alice Neel: People Come First, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Neel painted over the course of six decades, for the most part, until the last 20 years of her life, in relative obscurity. Her vibrant, idiosyncratic portraits are characterized above all by their candor and keen observation, which were at times unflattering but rarely without insight....

Mickey Rooney Tue Oct 01 2002 at 10:41:02 Actor Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jnr in Brooklyn New York, on 23 September 1920 and died on 6 April 2014. His parents, Nell Carter and comic Joe Yule Sr, were in vaudeville, and he made his first stage appearance as part of their act when he was just fifteen months old. His parents divorced when he was three, and his mother gained custody. Under her aegis he made his screen debut at the age of six, as a cigar smoking midget in the short silent film Not to Be Trusted, followed a year later with a full length feature Orchids and Ermine.

For Pride Month 2021, we asked eight writers and translators to recommend their favorite queer titles in translation. The books they shared with us—from Chile, China, Equatorial Guinea, France, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—explore a broad range of genres and themes,

Historically, writing can be political.