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Investigating Mortality
Lifestyle Investigating Mortality
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Michael Cunningham
Lifestyle Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Michael Cunningham
Time is an interconnecting and unpredictable thread among lives in the classic <...
One of McFadden’s great achievements is interweaving [Harlan’s] story within the context of the larger political environment in the United States and beyond. She does not shy away from the harsh reality of being Black in America, but life abroad also goes terribly awry.
Lifestyle A Life Awry
Love, Grief, and Quiet Determination
Lifestyle Love, Grief, and Quiet Determination
How a Mississippi couple forged a life together and changed the course of American history.
Ensuring the End of the British Slave Trade
Lifestyle Ensuring the End of the British Slave Trade
The story of how abolitionists and a nascent insurance industry find common cause.
The Burdens of Desire
Lifestyle The Burdens of Desire
In Whale Fall, the trappings of modernity intrude on a quiet Welsh island, with dubious results.
Life Is Art
Lifestyle Life Is Art
Richard Russo reflects on how a blue-collar upbringing inspired his novels.