How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worse
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of...
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As the rich have gotten richer, family offices have exploded in popularity, numbering 8,000 worldwide and managing some $3.1 trillion in assets,...
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Monica Lewinsky on Surviving Scandal and Her New Podcast 'Reclaiming'
The White House intern turned advocate opens up about her new podcast, survival, and charting a new course
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When Maxwell pressured journalist to drop 'horrible' abuse claims
Ghislaine Maxwell tried to force a journalist to drop her investigation into her paedophile boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein after she unearthed claims she...
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Five ways Mohamed Al-Fayed bought the silence of the Establishment
Veteran journalist Maureen Orth pulled no punches in her magazine profile of the controversial owner of Harrods, Mohamed Al-Fayed. She recorded: “A...
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s Hundredth Anniversary
Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication...
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Hattie McDaniel made history as the first Black person to win an Oscar. But she was racially typecast her entire career, playing a maid 74 times.
Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in 'Gone with the Wind,' became the first Black person to win an Oscar in 1940. Some members of the Black community...
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