literature

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The literature shows that one of the channels through which energy price shocks, like other commodity price shocks, can impact the economy is the central bank.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous: literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics and history.”

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

However, the researchers highlight major gaps in the existing literature.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

So much of contemporary literature reads like a tortured attempt to negotiate between the irreconcilable positions of righteous expression and guilty silence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann