These days, it seems motherhood has become a struggle just to stay on top of the latest self-help trend.
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Drew Gilpin Faust's latest book, This Republic of Suffering, explores one of the most sobering aspects of the Civil War: its colossal death toll.
Reporter Benson Gardner visited several raves for this report on the music, the drug use, the participants and the response from the community.
David Denby of The New Yorker tells Steve Paulson that Pauline Kael was the most remarkable person he’s ever known.
Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
This book really got us excited. Everyone wanted to touch it. Borrow it. Talk about it. It felt like magic.And the title was just as mysterious – Codex Seraphinianus. And who is this Luigi Serafini? Is he the author?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie splits her time between the U.S. and her native Nigeria...
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