For someone who is not a professional swimmer, I spend an awful lot of time under water. I consider it an act of mobile meditation: Sensory input is muffled, so the chaos of the surface world ...

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Dr Abdel-Fattah had been scheduled to appear at the event following the release of her 2025 book Discipline, but was advised last week she would no longer take part in the 2026 event. The author had ...

A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike rarely confessed or confronted his own. One day in the fall of 1951, when he was ...

It comes as Premier Peter Malinauskas doubled down on his support of the axing of an anti-Zionist academic from the event, resulting in dozens of the scheduled speakers cancelling their appearances.

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Anyone who regularly mails gifts to loved ones during the holiday season knows the United States Postal Service is typically closed on Christmas Day and then open and operating again on Dec. 26. But ...

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Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple praised President Donald Trump’s White House Wednesday for being more unguarded and open to the press than the previous administration. Vanity Fair published a viral ...