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In 1957, a labor leader named Daniel Fignolé was the president of Haiti for 19 days. Just two weeks

Mark Greaney is the author of the Gray Man series, a collection of espionage novels that chronicle t

Reid Hoffman has invested in AI for years. The LinkedIn co-founder said he used AI to vet his new bo

When a young child goes missing at a family gathering, a pack of cousins sets out into the woods to

TV writer, culture critic and podcast host Ira Madison III was not just one of the only Black studen

In Life Hacks for a Little Alien, both the narrator and protagonist are unnamed. The debut novel fro

Peter Beinart, once a defender of the Israeli state, has become one of its sharpest critics. His new

Caribbean American journalist Charmaine Wilkerson began her professional life in TV news. She recall

Singer-songwriter Neko Case of The New Pornographers band has just released a memoir titled The Hard

In 1917, Lev Bronshtein – also known as Leon Trotsky – spent 10 weeks in exile in New York City. The

In Ali Smith's Gliff, two children wake up to find that someone has painted a red line around their

As a cable news host, MSNBC's Chris Hayes is in the attention business. But in today's interview, he

The authors of two nonfiction books say they were moved to change the world after finding inspiratio

Cecilia, the main character in Olivia Abtahi's The Interpreter, wears an oversized green suit and ti

At age 36, actor Naomi Watts visited her doctor in hopes of starting a family. Instead, she was told

In 2021, Andy Corren published an obituary for his late mother in The Fayetteville Observer. "A plus

Betty Shamieh was the first Palestinian American playwright to have a play produced off-Broadway. Sh

Grady Hendrix is one of the biggest names in horror fiction today. He's published 11 horror novels a

After a long career as a prosecutor, a defense attorney and a judge, 77-year-old Rusty Sabich is ret

A new book titled Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the 21st Century by Bianca Mabute-