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Lauren Elkin | Flâneuse | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | March 2017 | 26 minutes (6,613 words) Below is the first chapter from Flâneuse, Lauren Elkin’s incisive hybrid book of memoir, cultural criticism and social history about the female urban walker...

Here are the latest reports from the Washington Posts ‘Wonkblog’. A top candidate to be Trump’s VP is totally at odds with him on a major issue Before he became governor of Indiana and a candidate to be Donald Trump’s vice-presidential nominee, Mike...

I would like to say on his behalf that Colson Whitehead that he is overjoyed to be here, even if he does not show it. “I have a good poker face,” Whitehead wrote in Noble Hustle, his book about gambling and Las Vegas, “because I am half dead inside....

As per tradition, the 74th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations were broadcast live in the wee hours Dec. 12, from the Beverly Hilton on NBC’s "Today" show. America's sweethearts Anna Kendrick, Laura Dern and Don Cheadle were joined by this year's trio...

Today’s first entry in oiur tour of things from the world of the dark arts and “national security” comes from Nextgov: The Day Before the State of the Union Has Been Full of NSA Leaks Rapid-fire reports revealing secret government...