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This Writer’s Life, Part Two
A conversation with writer Tobias Wolff about war, family, memoir, and the ethics of storytelling.
This Writer's Life, Part One
A conversation with writer Tobias Wolff about war, family, memoir, and the ethics of storytelling.
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My Towers, Our Towers
Philippe Petit on 9/11, his high-wire love affair with the World Trade Center, and why the twin towers will always be with him.
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'People Are Not Fools'
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Askold Melnyczuk: I Was a Pacificist—And Then They Came to Kill My Family
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ChatGPT Doesn't Know What Work Is
A Labor Day tribute to real workers in the real world and hope for the future.
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Shakespeare on Our ‘Scurvy Politicians’
Four hundred years later, the Bard of Avon still tells us more about our pols than any Fox News or CNN debate ever could.
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The ‘Beautiful Game,’ Pomegranate Molasses, and Why There’s Hope for America
A conversation with soccer coach and educator Luma Mufleh, the trailblazing founder of Fugees Academy schools for refugees and a Top 10 CNN Hero.
A Legacy of Moral Courage
A conversation with Diane Foley, mother of slain journalist James Foley and founder of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation.
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What 'Barbenheimer' Tells Us About Us
"Barbie," "Oppenheimer," and why we shouldn't avert our eyes from Hiroshima.
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Dear Sinéad
A letter to the Irish singer of rebel songs that wishes her what she gave me—the gift of calm, and peace, and understanding, and belonging.
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A Tokyo Reunion (Revisited)
In the aftermath of Japan's devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, family—as it always does—came first.
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