The Catcher in the Rye, Doctor Zhivago, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Brave New World, Of Mice and Men, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Handmaid’s Tale and Lolita. It’s a not just a list of entries in the modern literary canon – they’re also books that have been banned.
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Susan Boyle wants a man
Susan Boyle keeps asking friends to set her up on a date.
How Justin Bieber ruined tattoos
Message to Justin Bieber: Stop getting tattoos.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt ‘want eight’
Angeline Jolie and Brad Pitt reportedly want two more children. The couple famously share a brood of six, including adopted children from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia.
Aaron rules the Masterchef kitchen
He was the one to beat right the way through the series, but early on it looked as though Masterchef 2013 winner Aaron Brunet was about to choke at the final hurdle. Speaking to Fairfax from his home in Raglan, he said it was some advice he was given from a sportsman before going into the series that got him through what seemed like an insurmountable challenge
Bryce Wastney gets his big break
Bryce Wastney’s gamble is paying off.
Japanese Scientists Build a Perfect (and Fake) Pop Star
Eguchi Aimi is your typical Japanese pop star: perfect skin, high-pitched girlish voice, lithe figure, and a team of computer designers, photographers, and other pop stars artificially constructing her every movement. You read that correctly.
Mushroom Nation: Why America’s Fungus Fixation is a Patriotic Call to Dinner
Fungus that grows on rot might not, at first, seem the perfect image of our culinary ideals. And yet, if there is one food that can most perfectly symbolize America’s values in the way we eat and cook, it might well be mushrooms
GM CEO Henderson Resigns
If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends.
Five young adults charged in burglaries of celebrity homes
They’ve been called the Hollywood Hills Burglar Bunch and the Bling Ring. Now, five of the six young adults accused of burglarizing celebrity homes can be known as “booked.” “Shooting began several days ago [on the pilot] and will continue for the next few weeks,” E! told CNN