Bob Fosse’s current revival makes sense, but the wave of appreciation will also be a reckoning: moral immunity has been rescinded for geniuses.
My hometown is famous for a hate crime, and ten years after that murder, it’s not clear much progress has been made.
Finding myself in a sport that always felt connected to my father’s rage and regret.
Talking to poets abroad about their complicated, sometimes fractured relationships with their homeland.
I thought I could escape my jail kid past in an idyllic southern city. But trouble found me, and not everyone I knew got out alive.
The dubious distinction, and literary legacy, of Leo Szilard, the physicist and writer “who did the most to create the atomic bomb, and the most to stop it.”
First Nations people don’t believe in crossing the border, but the imaginary boundaries we’re forced to move between can create very real divides.
My grandfather had never told me about his trip to the Soviet Union in the sixties, but I don’t know why I was surprised. He never told me anything, not even my grandmother’s name.
With his unconventional take on children’s television, Mr. Rogers helped redefine the male role model.
Susan Peters was an Academy Award-nominated actress, a trainee pilot, a medical student. But it was a shooting incident in 1945 that would come to define her.
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