The BBC highlighted several "eerily prescient 2020 plague novels."
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"W.E.B. Du Bois devastates apologists for Confederate monuments and Robert E. Lee (1931)." (via Open Culture)
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"Eat like you're in the USSR with 'the Soviet diet cookbook,' " Gastro Obscura wrote. And Russia Beyond sampled "classical Russian characters and the traditional dishes they ate."
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"Orson Welles narrates animations of Plato's Cave and Kafka's 'Before the Law,' two parables of the human condition." (via Open Culture)
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Penguin showcased "eight of history's most influential literary circles."