Palin memoir a tame affair
There should be a feeling of palpable glee running through Sarah Palin’s memoir: Now, finally, she gets to talk, unfiltered and unedited.

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Why Muhammad matters
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the new book, “Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters” (HarperOne; $24.99 hardcover) by Omid Safi. Safi is a professor of ...

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John Grisham to speak at UNC graduation
UNC Chapel Hill has chosen best-selling author John Grisham to speak at its spring commencement

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A half-century later, Kansas town still haunted by brutal murder chronicled by Truman Capote
HOLCOMB , Kan. — It’s one of America’s most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on Nov. 15, 1959, at their rural farmhouse

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Johnson bio shows the man behind text
David Nokes, a prominent scholar of 18th-century English literature, takes a fresh look at Samuel Johnson, the man known as the creator of the dictionary. In doing so, Nokes shows a very human sid...

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