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The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is making a fresh case for Douglas Moore’s “Giants in the Earth,” a Pulitzer ...
The Washington Post’s longtime book critic Michael Dirda took a break from reading, then delved into some favorites and new ...
Rich in variety, townland names are markers of tradition and belonging, reflecting historical events or landscape features ...
Approaching 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, PolitiFact has been fact-checking a whole host of topics related to the new administration, significant policy changes and, in some cases, the ...
So in its modest way, this manifesto kills fascists. Plus it offers a striking two-page bibliography suggesting you read the ...
Good writers are a pleasure to read. Great ones are so evocative that you often tingle to get to the next page.
What does justice look like when we reflect on the harms caused to Black men and their communities through unethical research ...
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What is Close Reading?
Fairly quickly, I developed a reputation, a friend told me, for being bad at close reading. “What is close reading?” a professor asked us on the first day of a seminar on modern American poetry. I ...
I got it simply because I’m yet another victim of the Trump Administration’s incompetence.
Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by ...