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Copies of the novel Taiwan Travelogue, which received the International Booker Prize this year, are seen at a bookstore in Taipei on May 21, 2026.
I-HWA CHENG
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'Taiwan Travelogue' rethinks history, colonialism, and identity
Jan Camenzind Broomby
The author and translator of Taiwan Travelogue, the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating geopolitical pressure from China.
Classicist and translator Emily Wilson published a critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in the London Review of Books. Wilson has loved Greek myths since childhood and has translated both the Iliad and Odyssey. She has tattoos of a spear on one leg and a bow on the other — she says they represent Achilles and Odysseus.
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'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn't have written the movie himself
Dave Davies
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Greetings from an isolated region in northern Pakistan's Hindu Kush mountains
Betsy Joles
Glen Hansard, seen here performing in Washington, D.C. in 2016, led the Irish band The Frames and won an Oscar for the song "Falling Slowly" from the film Once.
AJ Wilhelm
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Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and 'Once' star, dies at 56
Stephen Thompson, Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
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Data centers are being built across Texas every day. Here’s what goes on inside one in Austin
KUT News requested tours of several data centers in Hays, Travis and Williamson counties. Most companies either declined or did not respond. But the Texas Advanced Computing Center let us...
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Students unload the canned food items into large boxes placed outside of the Capital Area Food Bank. Photo by Katie Hayes
Report shows nearly 1 in 5 Texans are experiencing food insecurity
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