28 August The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
That there is pain and evil, is no rule That I should make it greater, like a fool.
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Published on this day
- 2014 The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
- 2001 Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
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- John Betjeman: Daily Herald Archive at the National Media Museum Edited & Uploaded By MediaJet, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Clare Mackintosh: HotNewsRomania, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Leigh Hunt: Samuel Laurence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Elizabeth Medora Leigh: unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- E. P. Thompson: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Robert Shaw: Official Films, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized