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Putin's Scary Russian Canon; Literature's Fanciest and Least Practical Homes

Reuters

Today in books: Amazon Publishing strikes a licensing deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Vladimir Putin wants Russia to have a canon to call its own, and the beautiful, impractical, and gaudy homes of successful authors.

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