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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You might not know this, but Scientific American…

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An iconic Halifax bookstore may be forced to close permanently if the business is unable to raise enough…

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Thomas McMullan’s debut novel, The Last Good Man, was a darkly unsettling post-apocalyptic fable about moral puritanism and…

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Author Anna Sayburn Lane with her latest book Murder on the White Cliffs Kingsgate Bay is the backdrop…

Pranali Dabir’s Sundays, once consumed by chores and responsibilities, now involve a long drive, special mother-daughter breakfasts, and…

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The prize is being offered through a competition at the Long Street Summer Social, a new one-day festival…

ABRAMS Abrams pricks up its ears for The Animals Speak by S.D. Nelson, which espouses that the teachings…

In the 1960s, a hospital in London held a ward full of women who suffered from a range…

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