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A Clockwork Orange: 60-year-old teen slang that still shocks

November 14, 2022 · Pop Culture

Within the first few lines of Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange, we are lured into a near-future after-dark realm, and a strangely potent new language. Fifteen-year-old…

The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on

October 20, 2022 · Pop Culture

Bret Easton Ellis – an early reader of Tartt’s manuscript for The Secret History – introduced his friend to his literary agent, who secured a $450,000 advance for…