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Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war “unwinnable.”

The actor has teamed up with YA superstar Ashley Woodfolk on their forthcoming novel, Louder Than Words.

"It came across really big-headed didn’t it?"

Plus a new signature hair style.

Working in a Louisiana middle school has made Amanda Jones a culture warrior, a process she describes in “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.”

As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.

When this journalist started collecting strangers’ stories about race, she relied on a trusted intermediary: the United States Postal Service.

Literary allusions are everywhere. What are they good for?

The rapper never disappoints when it comes to an outfit.