CULTURE

Donald Trump finally called “bullshit” on Vladimir Putin this week, though nobody seems to quite know what it means. One explanation, and…

Recognizing oneself as one really is and not as one appears to others is the major theme of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work.…

For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim. Source link

“After my father stopped breathing, God bless his memory, I covered his body up in blankets—and kept studying.” Source link

Jesse Eisenberg and Meredith Scardino were trying to come up with an idea for a musical, in a conference room in midtown,…

Let me tell you about my mother. For twenty-five years, five, sometimes six, days a week, she drove the same fifty miles,…

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Toni at Random, by Dana A. Williams (Amistad). This study of Toni Morrison’s tenure as a senior editor at Random House draws…

Last Thursday afternoon, the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, stood smiling in a hallway of the Capitol as he deflected reporters’ questions about…

Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking…