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Everyone invited: 'Great Gatsby' copyright to end in 2021

Anyone will be allowed to publish the book, adapt it to a movie, make it into an opera or stage a Broadway musical. No longer will you need to get permission to write a sequel, a prequel, a Jay Gatsby detective novel or a Gatsby narrative populated with zombies.
by The Associated Press

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Review: Whatever happened to Ibsen’s Nora?

Review: Whatever happened to Ibsen’s Nora?

A modern playwright has tried to answer a question left hanging 140 years ago.
by Eric Ringham

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Monty Python star Terry Jones dies at 77

Monty Python star Terry Jones dies at 77

Jones's agent says he died Tuesday evening. In a statement, his family said he died "after a long, extremely brave but always good humored battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD."
by The Associated Press

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'Cleanness' revisits familiar ground, beautifully

'Cleanness' revisits familiar ground, beautifully

Garth Greenwell's new story collection — like his previous novel — follows young, gay American men teaching English in Bulgaria. It's part heartbreaking, part forward-looking, and all beautiful.
by Martha Anne Toll

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In 'Agency,' William Gibson builds a bomb that doesn't boom (and that's OK)

In 'Agency,' William Gibson builds a bomb that doesn't boom (and that's OK)

Gibson's new novel is a sequel to 2014's “The Peripheral,” jumping back and forth in time as investigators, military contractors and killers chase down a rogue AI, and tensions flare in the Middle East.
by Jason Sheehan

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Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit

Hidden for decades, work of Minnesota photographer gets its own museum exhibit

After sitting unseen and largely forgotten for more than a quarter century, a trove of images taken by a Minnesota photographer in the 1940s and 1950s are on display in a new museum exhibit in Winona.
by Andrew Krueger

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Prince wrongful death case dismissed; estate case continues

Prince wrongful death case dismissed; estate case continues

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Prince's family members has been quietly dismissed in recent months, suggesting family members have reached settlements with defendants including the Minnesota doctor who saw Prince in the weeks before his death and the Illinois hospital that treated him for an opioid overdose seven days before he died.
by Amy Forliti, Associated Press

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Youthful curators present a younger world in 'Just Kids'

Youthful curators present a younger world in 'Just Kids'

Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit of photographs of children and young adults was designed and documented by Twin Cities school students.
by Euan Kerr

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