The overturned convictions regarding allegedly faked Brett Whiteley paintings provide a lesson in how we tend to evaluate ...

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When I was young, I knew a lot about old people. Especially about old people I knew personally: members of my family, my ...

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The 100th anniversary of the Carver County Fair is being celebrated this year in Waconia, Aug. 10-14. An event of this magnitude immediately put me in the hunt researching, to learn the nuances of ...

Sylvia Plath’s writing was witty, political, emotional and sharp. A substantial new collection includes more than 50 ...

The relationship between horror movies and horror literature goes way back. In fact, some of the best and most terrifying ...

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

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When Lillian Ross profiled the celebrated novelist, the world saw ridicule and ruin. But letters between the reporter and her ...

We’re so used to cooking eggs to make them “hard-boiled” that we don’t think about how counter that word is to most of nature ...