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Books
What Can Literature Teach Us About Forgiveness?
“How I’m gon keep from killing him,” says Celie, the protagonist of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel “The Color Purple.” The “him” is Celie’s husband, Mr.__. His first name is Albert, but he’s so cruel Celie won’t speak his name. In ...
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News
A Novel Therapy, Using Writing, Shows Promise for PTSD
The News A comparatively quick treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, in which a patient writes about traumatic experiences in five supervised 30-minute sessions, is as effective as the therapies most recommended by federal agencies ...
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Newyork
Rudy Giuliani Was Never ‘America’s Mayor’
On Monday, Rudy Giuliani was indicted in Georgia for his role in what prosecutors called a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state. The district attorney for Fulton County, Fani Willis, charged Giuliani with ...
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Newyork
As the Red Rock Desert Broils Us in Beauty, Will We Have to Leave?
Aridity is baked into the people and places of the American Southwest. We possess a dry demeanor influenced by a landscape that is often cracked and weathered by wind, water and time. You see it in our faces and you feel it on the ground, but we ...
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Newyork
I Put On Lipstick for This?
Lunch with an older friend prompts a writer to try some seemingly outdated stratagems for attracting a mate.
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News
The Women’s Magazines of 2023 Are in a Facebook Group and Your Inbox
People still want to know what to wear and what is actually worth buying — and they want to trust the person telling them.
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US
For the Court of Public Opinion, Trump Relies on a ‘Whataboutism’ Defense
As the former president faces multiple criminal indictments, he and his defenders try to shift attention by pointing to President Biden’s son Hunter.
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Books
These Characters Need Therapists. ‘Cinema Therapy’ Is Here for Them.
Two YouTube hosts have built a following by dissecting the psychology of movie characters. Here, they analyze some of this summer’s familiar faces.
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Newyork
What to Do When Your Dog Bites (and Happens to Live in the White House)
Any dog can bite. It is the special misfortune of dogs living in the most famous house in the United States to have their bites widely publicized, amplified and scrutinized. And so when Commander, the German shepherd who lives with President and Jill ...
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Newyork
The Butterfly Net and the Magic of Attention
If you have ever gone bird watching, or looked for wildflowers or mushrooms, or hunted for deer or rabbits, you will know the strange enchantment of searching for nature’s hidden treasures. I myself first knew it in childhood, hunting for butterflies ...