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Middle-age metabolism. If there is a more ferocious and vindictive beast that can be encountered in the autumn of life, I pray I never encounter it. The cruel markers of bodily decline in the infancy ...

Paterson, New Jersey, 1979: Jamie Palmieri is an up-and-coming patrol officer, three years out of the academy and frustrated with his slow rise to detective. That all changes one frigid night in Janua ...

Marlon Brando was a great man: a genius, a visionary, a generational talent, and perhaps the best actor to ever live. Few would disagree, claiming it self-evident. But the latest biopic on Brando&rsqu ...

Excerpted from Stop All the Clocks. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Arcade Publishing. "I was raised in South Florida," Marcos said once Mona had finished. He di ...

In a world that is, technically speaking, more connected than ever before in human history, Americans find themselves isolated, atomized, and without a feeling of greater purpose. Like a fish without ...