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…
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Last Thursday afternoon, the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, stood smiling in a hallway of the Capitol as he deflected reporters’ questions about…
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Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking…
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“The protesters seem to be doing some sort of joyful synchronized dance. Is it time to call in the Marines?” Source link
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Throughout her childhood, Constance called the gorse that grew on the hillsides above her house “honey-bottle,” and gathered fistfuls of it despite…
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Shamelessness, defined as brazen disregard for that which might deter anyone else, has always been one of Donald Trump’s superpowers. It’s part…
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Around midnight on April 16, 2025, after Chen Zimo learned that the Department of Homeland Security had threatened to revoke Harvard University’s…
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Last year, on the occasion of Taschen’s reissue of “Workers” (originally published in 1993), I had the chance to interview Salgado over…