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A married couple set sail from England in 1972 aiming for New Zealand. Everything changed when a whale struck their vessel.
The hysteria seems to have passed. It is now possible to urge a reconsideration of rash judgments without fear of getting ...
Can the lead plaintiff in the gay marriage case move on from his grief — and can America move on from homophobia?
Below are five stages of a dying marriage outlined by Whetstone. The first four align with some of Vaughan’s findings, while the fifth is one that Whetstone discovered in her own research, she said.
This elegant debut novel features two wealthy families who come together to celebrate a birthday at a country house in upstate New York. Misdemeanours and cutting comments cause tensions; a harsh ...
In our survey about the best books since 1996, a number of authors split the vote — among their own titles. Here are 10 prolific pens that deserved an honorable mention.
Here they are — the 10 Best Books of 2024. At the Book Review, we spend all year getting ready for this moment. We begin debating our annual best-of list in the spring, going to the mat for what ...
We still have 75 years left to go in the 21st century, but the folks at The New York Times have already compiled a list of the best books released between 2000 and 2025 (so far). A group of over ...
As a result, by the time Disneyland’s gates opened, on July 17, 1955 — on former orchards just inside the recently expanded ...
When Jim Obergefell was sitting in the gallery at the Supreme Court on June 26, 2015, he was waiting to hear his name.The justices were preparing to rule on Obergefell v. Hodges, a case that ...
A Supreme Court ruling over a Montgomery County lawsuit gave parents the right to opt their kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ books. These are the children's books they relied on.
A ‘Groundhog Day’ Time Loop So Long It Spans 7 Enthralling Books Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day. Share full article ...