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‘Operation Pushkin’: Paris Trial Puts Spotlight on Rare-Book Heists

12 June 2026 at 05:01
One by one, valuable works by Russian masters like Pushkin and Gogol were disappearing from libraries across Europe. Now six defendants are being prosecuted.

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A sculpture of Alexander Pushkin made of paper at a bookstore in St. Petersburg, Russia, this week.

Why Books and Movies and Life All Suck Now

9 June 2026 at 19:00

Maybe it's the midlife crisis talking, but the racist purge of straight white men from arts and entertainment has degraded all books and films, says Nick Dixon, and left behind only meaningless, endless culture war.

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