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Virginia Woolf

Faithful photographic reproduction of Edvard Munch's painting, "Self-Portrait with Spanish Flu."

Art, poetry and … zombies? The surprising cultural contributions of the 1918 influenza pandemic

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The influence of the 1918 flu pandemic is an undercurrent that runs through many works of the period.

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Poet, translator, soldier, spy? Remembering the man who brought Proust to the English world

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Creativity and madness

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Tracy Letts: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

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Remembering Elizabeth Taylor

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Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday morning at the age of 79. She was rarely able to make constructive use of her great appetite for life– she once said: “Where the heart leads, I follow.”

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Windows to the Soul

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Science is looking for ways to better understand an autistic person’s perception of the world. Using laser technology, Ami Klin and Warren Jones of the Yale School of Medicine screened “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and tracked the gazes of autistic viewers precisely, to study how they perceive social interactions. Biologist David Gruber visited their […]

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