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Diaries can be the most revealing records of who we are. One compulsive diarist introduces the intimate reflections of Audre ...
Produced by Macklemore and Alana Hadid, new documentary The Encampments became the most-seen documentary in theaters in its ...
This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as How to Keep a Commonplace Book: The Renaissance-Era Practice That ...
“Diary of a Soldier in the Asia Minor Campaign, 1919-1921” in paperback can be found on Amazon.com and at Barnes & Noble ...
Ever wonder how US presidents fuel up for a day in the Oval Office? We reveal the interesting breakfast habits of some of ...
It was a quiet summer, and I was determined to switch off—no clinics, no case logs, just rest. One afternoon, while unpacking ...
On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She ...
To help narrow things down, Sarah McKenna, Digital Content Manager at Penguin Books UK, and the Penguin editorial team turned ...
British primatologist Jane Goodall entered the African wilderness at 26, without any formal scientific training or university ...
Natasha Deen is a Guyanese-Canadian writer of books for kids and adults. Her books include the YA novels In the Key of Nira ...
You are a writer. Don’t tell your parents that.” My English advisor, Professor Robert Cohen, told me these words as I sat in ...
Bella Freud—who’s also the child of Lucian—has had a lot to unpack. She’s working through it, mesmerizingly, on “Fashion ...