David Bamman studies culture at a scale few humans ever could. An associate professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, Bamman uses computational methods to analyze books, films and music, ...

Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, he went on to reclaim a leading musician of the psychedelic era as a distinctly ...

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Sedaris says the best part of reading his work to an audience is earning the laughs — or the groans. "A collective groan is ...

In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.

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The FBI visited the home of Milwaukee County Elections Director Michelle Hawley on Wednesday, leaving a business card as federal officials continue reviewing claims tied to the 2020 election. The ...

AS a boy, Sir David Attenborough was leafing through an old book when he stumbled upon the words that changed his life. They were in a 19th Century work called The Malay Archipelago, which contained a ...

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David Szalay was “praised by the judges for its originality” when his pared-back novel, “Flesh”, scooped the Booker Prize last year, said The Times. “Yet some readers have found it strangely familiar.

Stax Records legend David Porter is releasing a new memoir titled "The Soul Man: Life of a Songwriter." The book details his early life in Memphis, his partnership with Isaac Hayes, and his role in ...