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‘The Millionaire Couple Who Will End Divorce’ Says Three Things Will Keep Your Marriage Intact
Harville and Helen take turns talking and clicking through a PowerPoint that includes slides in both English and Spanish. Helen explains that half the people here tonight are the “draggers,” the other half are the “draggees,” and that it will actually be that second group that’s more excited by the end of the workshop. “See,” […]
Posted inNonfiction, Podcasts
Appropriate for a Seven-Year-Old Child
Navigating life with a transgender child.
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Appropriate for a Seven-Year-Old Child
Navigating life with a transgender child.
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How Oil Money From Texas Fuels Hollywood
“The story begins in the 1930s, with Glenn McCarthy striking oil in Beaumont. McCarthy—who was the inspiration for the Jett Rink character in Edna Ferber’s Giant—used his millions to bankroll the 1949 drama ‘The Green Promise’, starring Natalie Wood and Walter Brennan. The movie was almost immediately forgotten, but McCarthy established a much-repeated role: the […]
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Revisiting the Vibrancy of Deaf Culture: A Reading List
Longreads to celebrate the vibrancy, history, and enduring presence of Deaf culture and its advocates.
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Who Was the Poet Frank Stanford?
With the recently released What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford, the work of a brilliant, difficult, much-mythologized and little-known American poet is finally widely available. Frank Stanford’s short life was a study in contradictions: his childhood was divided between the privilege of an upper-crust Memphis family and summers deep in the Mississippi Delta; he was a […]
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The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
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The Politics of Poetry
The New York Times’s poetry columnist on the intersection between poetry and politics.
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What It Was Like to Cover Mario Cuomo as a Reporter for the New York Times
Four years of covering Cuomo as a reporter have put me at his side day after day, week after week, from the Soviet Union to Canada, from San Francisco to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We’ve drunk vodka together at backyard cookouts and in a Leningrad hotel. (Often after a few vodkas, and in other times […]
