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August 7, 2020 at 2:53 pm

Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and educator of lasting influence whose “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution” transformed how...

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August 6, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Former President Bush pays tribute to immigrants in new book

NEW YORK (AP) — A new book by former President George W. Bush will highlight an issue which now sets him apart from many of...

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August 5, 2020 at 5:30 am

Five high schoolers named National Student Poets

NEW YORK (AP) — Five high school juniors, residing everywhere from Lake Worth, Florida, to Saratoga, California, have been named National Student Poets. A partnership...

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August 4, 2020 at 5:36 am

Winfrey picks Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ for her book club

NEW YORK (AP) — If not for the coronavirus, Oprah Winfrey says, she would be out in the streets and marching with the Black Lives...

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July 30, 2020 at 5:01 am

Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April

NEW YORK (AP) — In the Fall 2012, as the willing subject of one of the most anticipated literary biographies in recent memory, Philip Roth...

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July 28, 2020 at 5:01 am

MacDowell retreat experiments with virtual fellowships

NEW YORK (AP) — Brenda Shaughnessy is a prize-winning poet who speaks reverently of her times spent at MacDowell, the New Hampshire based retreat where...

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FILE – In this file photo dated Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004, Actress Olivia de Havilland, who played the doomed Southern belle Melanie in “Gone With the Wind,” poses for a photograph, in Los Angeles, USA. Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress has died, aged 104 in Paris, publicist says Sunday July 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, FILE) WRC120 WRC120

July 26, 2020 at 2:15 pm

Olivia de Havilland embodied old Hollywood, and shook it up

Fans and actors alike owe much to Olivia de Havilland, the Oscar-winning performer who became, almost literally, a law unto herself.

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July 26, 2020 at 10:57 am

Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104

PARIS (AP) — Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a...

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July 26, 2020 at 9:38 am

Olivia de Havilland, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 104

PARIS (AP) — Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a...

July 26, 2020 at 8:39 am

Everywhere and nowhere: The many layers of ‘cancel culture’

NEW YORK (AP) — So you've probably read a lot about “cancel culture.” Or know about a new poll that shows a plurality of Americans...

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