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Venice is a city of water. Its roads, commerce, security, and success are due to the intertwining canals that appear labyrinthine to the stranger yet form a safety net for natives. For over a thousand ...

When it comes to functioning democracies, trust is an integral ingredient; without it, communities cannot function, and citizens grow increasingly despondent and hopeless. In 2026, America is celebrat ...

Excerpted from The Body of This Death: Letters from the Last Archbishop of Lancaster (Word on Fire Academic) +++++ Note to the Reader: I was given this manuscript two years ago by ...

A stark and unsettling portrait of success, in the vein of Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen, that revives the long-established intersection between ambition and corruption in the pursuit of the Americ ...

Sun Deluxe: New and Collected Stories brings together a decades-arcing assemblage of work, pairing new and previously unpublished pieces with some of Frederick Barthelme's classic stories previo ...