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Those dueling visions led to a moderately received comic-book film. "The climax is a bit ... Now, the spotlight is on Agatha Harkness, a formerly powerful witch whose powers were stripped and ...

John Feinstein, whose career as a columnist and bestselling author of sports books made him one of the most notable sportswriters of his time, died Thursday. He was 69. Feinstein died of natural ...

A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics. By Richard Sandomir John Feinstein, an indefatigable ...

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In the book’s introduction, revised after last autumn’s US election result, Frances-White argues that, while the “alt-right” is rallying around detailed and active plans to undermine or ...

Writing cannot be taught but it can be learned. A paradox? A Zen koan? Perhaps both, but this is what I concluded after 30 years of teaching a course called Advanced Prose Composition at ...

Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Nikki ...