A penny for Nick Politis’ thoughts this week as he listened to Brandon Smith declare that back when he was a whippersnapper in New Zealand, he supported South Sydney – the Sydney Roosters’ arch ...

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A new book called “Careless People,” published Tuesday by former executive-turned-whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, provides a detailed account of her six years at the company, offering an ...

Symphony orchestra audiences aren't known for their rowdiness but Thursday night's concert at the Kennedy Center by the National Symphony Orchestra was a brief exception. As Vice President Vance ...

The same can't be said about the Canadian roster. Boo-birds poured down during player introductions. Mike Eruzione, who scored the game-winning goal in the U.S. men's 1980 Olympic win over the ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. In “The Fisherman’s Gift,” a man finds a lost child ...

In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be. By Joumana Khatib In Linda Joan Smith’s ...

Celebrity bookworms are here to stay. Ever since Oprah Winfrey started her iconic book club in the ’90s, celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Emma Roberts, Dua Lipa and Jenna Bush Hager have ...

March 11, 2025 • Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art. February 26, 2025 ...

And unlike horror movies that often rely on jump scares and gore, these well-written scary books provide all the creepiness without those concerns. So try out one of our favorite horror books, and for ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...