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Modern Heroism

By Mark Carrigan In 1986, DC Comics published a four issue mini-series called Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. While few would have predicted it prior…

What Are Libraries For?

By Jason Smith We all have a soft spot for libraries. Maybe from being taken to the small local library by a primary school teacher…

Larger than Life: What Does The Great Gatsby Owe to Le Grand Meaulnes?

By Brenda Stones The recent refilming of The Great Gatsby must have sent a lot of us back to reread the book: and what an…

The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform

This article [The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2016/08/17/the-calcutta-pococurante-society-public-and-private-in-indias-age-of-reform/] under a…

Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2006) As a science fiction writer, no piece of news could make me more hopeful. It…

Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent

This article [Olaus Magnus’s Sea Serpent] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/02/05/olaus-magnuss-sea-serpent/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to…

The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2007) Science fiction is a literature of the present. Many’s the science fiction writer who uses…