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On a recent Tuesday evening in Nashville, I stood for an hour in a long line on the front porch of the Nashville Songwriters Association building on Music Row, along with about a hundred other ...

Two years ago, as pollsters assured us that TikTok moms would uniformly vote "brat," Trump seemed unexpectedly in touch with the zeitgeist--as captured by the popularity of Trump-supporting ...

Sun Deluxe: New and Collected Stories brings together a decades-arcing assemblage of work, pairing new and previously unpublished pieces with some of Frederick Barthelme's classic stories ...

"The people have spoken -- the bastards." Dick Tuck, the old Democratic prankster, conceded an election with that line. Tuck knew his way around the back room. He rode in Bobby Kennedy's ambulance ...

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 ...

Everybody says Nero fiddled while Rome burned. No one says the fiddle was invented fourteen centuries later, and Tacitus, in the Annals, writes that the emperor was down the coast at Antium when the ...

Excerpted from Independence Hall: The History of an American Icon (Creed & Culture) Americans do not associate Independence Hall, the stage for both the Declaration and the Constitution, with ...

The 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s comprised the true golden age of cinema. This amazing period saw the rise of the summer blockbuster, yet the quest for commercial success went hand in hand with ...

My formative years would have been quite different without Tim Burton's early string of classic movies. Whenever I felt the need to escape from the world, I was able to travel to Burton's ...

Cultivating social connection and combatting loneliness ought to be the bipartisan effort of our time. Whether you're a social conservative or a Bernie-loving progressive, the fact remains that we ...