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I wouldn’t hang Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” in the living room, but I could stare at Janina Baranowska’s “Actaeon Devoured by His Hounds” every evening over dinner.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023

He’s the author of “Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World” and is working on his next book, about pandemic shipping disruptions, called “How the World Ran Out of Everything.”

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Devoured planets are one likely culprit for those souped-up stellar spins.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2022

"Devoured her work, taught her work and she taught me so much," Maya Harris, an activist, author and the sister of U.S.

From Reuters • Dec. 15, 2021

Devoured by the noble longing of discovery, he would set out in canzones the doctrines of the old-world Sages concerning Love which is the path to Virtue.

From The Well of Saint Clare by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)