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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene in 1985 with the publication of her début novel, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,” a fictional “retelling” of her childhood in a working-class…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My grandmother, who is ninety-two, has moved three times in her life. She was born in a small town in the province of Shandong, China, and, when she was twenty-three, she…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Tony Notarberardino, a photographer from Melbourne, first arrived at the Chelsea Hotel in 1994. He was in his mid-thirties, and he had lived in Paris and London before deciding to try…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “They were the new Charles and Diana, in some ways,” Gary Neville, the former Manchester United player, says in the first episode of “Beckham,” a new, four-part documentary on Netflix. They,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “When the psychohistory of a people is marked by ongoing loss, when entire histories are denied, hidden, erased, documentation can become an obsession,” bell hooks writes in her book “Art on…

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Will we never be free? Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture, by Kevin Munger, Columbia University Press, 216 pages. “If you look back on the Sixties and think there was more good than bad,…

Ratings madness is disrupting the sport’s traditions. Credit: April Visuals This season, the college football world has been openly obsessed with television ratings. The success of Deion Sanders in his first year at Colorado has been measured just as much…

Tingley v. Ferguson will be a referendum on Christian morals in psychiatry. Credit: Bob Korn May Christian counselors offer Christian counsel? This is the question the Supreme Court of the United States is expected to weigh in on this week. …

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You may have seen the recent meme involving the phrase “the feminine urge to,” followed by some pithy example of melancholy or chaotic behavior. “The feminine urge to stop replying to…