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Over their lifetimes, the people at Live Oak Adult Day Services in San Jose had witnessed some of the biggest technological leaps of the modern era: the arrival of television, the rise of the internet ...

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Henry Darger, a recluse who left behind thousands of wild illustrations upon his death, is the subject of fascination in this one-man show.

A Life,” Mark Oppenheimer’s thoughtful, thorough biography, makes the case that the writer, whose books in the 1970s and 80s made her famous (and infamous), was both a timeless literary talent and a ...

Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China. Renowned in his field as a contrarian, he ...

In the early 2000s, Hilary Duff soundtracked the era of butterfly clips and Laguna Beach for a whole generation of tweens and teens. Now, the singer-actress has returned to address her millennial ...

This column is a recognition of the presidency and related topics as well as a celebration of Black History Month. When George Washington announced his retirement from the presidency, the country was ...

Librarian Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel tells a fictionalized account of real-life events in 2013 that restricted access to Marjane Satrapi's memoir Persepolis in Chicago Public Schools.

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