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• Jean-Jacques Sempé obituary

  18-08-2022 18:44
  
  French cartoonist who depicted the adventures of Le Petit Nicolas and produced more than 100 covers for the New YorkerFor most of his life, the French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, who has died aged 89, would draw a line at talking publicly about his chaotic and unhappy childhood. He was well into his 80s when he finally admitted that the cheerful schoolboy character who would become his most famous creation – Le Petit Nicolas – was a way of dealing with a period in his life
  
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• The Unexpurgated Darwin — Lost Notebooks Reveal His Thinking

  18-08-2022 00:01 via newyorker.com
  
  For academics, the uncooked contents of the notebooks represent some of the liveliest writing in biology. “A lot of Darwin’s prose feels quite Victorian. But these are different: an early form of stream of consciousness; like Leopold Bloom on steroids.” – The New Yorker
  
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