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A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what it was like to be Black.” This wish is different from wanting to cosplay the coolness of Blackness — mimicking style, ...

In a quip that launched a million memes, Minnesota Governor-turned-VP-candidate Tim Walz referred to his right-wing political opposition as “weird people” in a July 23, 2024, interview on MSNBC. Since ...

If Fox Mulder had tenure, he’d be Greg Eghigian. Not just because he also wants to believe, but because he wants citations with his sightings, footnotes with his flying saucers, and a properly ...

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THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY. By Claire Messud. W.W. Norton & Company. 448 pages. $29.99. Secrets and shame — every family has its share. When it came time to write her most autobiographical novel, ...

To tell a story is to place a frame around wayward events. The storyteller points to scenes unfolding within the frame and says, This is important. The implication is that what transpires beyond those ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A former Union Army officer who came to Northwest Louisiana as a carpetbagger after the Civil War lost both of his arms after a failed assassination attempt in the ...

Claire Messud is, for me, the epitome of a thriving working writer in America, her success evidence of a literary world, a system that often does not reward the most deserving of artists, for once ...