Month: February 2023

Marsh reflects on his advanced prostate cancer diagnosis. David Bianculli reviews the Apple TV+ comedy series Shrinking. Caplan plays a woman confronting mid life in Fleishman is in Trouble.

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Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.

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Poet J. Ivy is a nominee for the Grammys’ Best Spoken Word Poetry Album award — a new category he helped create, after petitioning the Recording Academy.

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NPR’s Scott Simon talks with Evgeniy Maloletka, an Ukrainian photojournalist, about what it’s been like documenting a year of war in his country.

When my daughter turned three, I started to learn magic. As the primary caretaker for her, I had hours and hours to fill each day.

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President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing Covid-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normality nearly three years after they were first declared. What do you think?

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WASHINGTON—Claiming that previous laws were inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that domestic abusers could not be barred from owning an instrument of vengeance. “According to the court’s historical interpretation of the Second Amendment, Americans cannot legally…

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Words of affirmation are great and all, but what about quality silent time?

WASHINGTON—Bowing down before the floating intruder mere hours after it entered American airspace, the entire U.S. nation reportedly surrendered Friday to the Chinese balloon spotted hovering over Montana. “Today, I speak to the Great Balloon to say unequivocally: the country is yours,” said President Joe Biden in a…

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