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“I’m going to speak for Kiese: If either of us ever did one thing at a time, we might die,” says Deesha Philyaw. Kiese Laymon, the professor and acclaimed author...

Andrea Robin Skinner, daughter of the late Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, revealed that her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, sexually assaulted her as a 9-year-old, and that her mother knew about...

Tributes flowed in from across the literary world after the death in May at age 92 of Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, who is credited with perfecting the contemporary...

LONDON — If anyone’s going to miss the United Kingdom election campaign, it’s Ed Davey. The Liberal Democrats leader has taken the six weeks of electioneering in stride, doing almost...

Benjamin Franklin was America’s first diplomat and undoubtedly its best. Yes, there have been other stalwarts, such as George Kennan and Richard Holbrooke (a former editor of this magazine). But...

Hurricane Beryl has been upgraded to a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm as it rolls through the southeastern Caribbean, leaving a trail of destruction and raising fears that this year’s...

Hurricane Beryl has been upgraded to a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm as it rolls through the southeastern Caribbean, leaving a trail of destruction and raising fears that this year’s...

There’s a lot of debate over what to call the loosely connected group of people working to make America more racist: white supremacists, white nationalists, white power advocates, professional racists,...

Indian writer Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter prize, two weeks after Indian authorities approved legal action over political comments she made 14 years ago.  The novelist said...

We’ll admit we’ve never been the biggest fans of Eva Longoria. Going all the way back to her Desperate Housewives days, we always felt she tried too hard to generate...