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• As controversy surrounding Brexit roils the United Kingdom, Laura Beers, author of Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party and Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist, spoke with the Atlantic’s Masthead podcast about the evolution of the British Labour Party from Tony Blair to “purer socialist” Jeremy Corbyn.
• Payal Arora, author of The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West, explained in the Boston Globe that the global poor go online for the same utterly human reasons as people in developed nations: to watch pornography, chat with loved ones, and make connections.
• In the wake of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s announcement regarding her formation of a presidential exploratory committee, Ellen Fitzpatrick, author of Century of Struggle and The Highest Glass Ceiling, discussed the history of female candidates’ struggles with the “likability” on WBUR’s Radio Boston.

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December 21: A Very Hippo Holiday with Edward Lear

Edward Lear wrote some of the best-loved poems in English, including “The Owl and the Pussycat,” and has captivated the imagination of readers, young and old, for generations. As a holiday treat, we asked Sara Lodge, author of Inventing Edward Lear to reflect on Edward Lear as a Christmas poet. Edward Lear is an apt character to think about at Christmas-time. His nonsense books, mo…