The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

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On “Virgin,” her fourth and latest album, Lorde examines the myths that make up her identity. This introspection comes after ...

He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.

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With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for ...

Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that ...

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