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Nigeria’s booming creative economy, spanning music, film, fashion, visual arts, publishing, advertising, tourism, and more, receives a rigorous, multidisciplinary boost with the release of a new ...

A Writer Who Dazzled on the Page but Lived for the Margins “Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures,” a new biography of Denis Johnson, traces the life of a brilliant nonconformist. By Dwight Garner New ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

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For almost as long as baseball has existed as an organized sport, team owners have been trying to suppress payrolls ...

The heartbroken family of a young Scottish student killed in a crash in Ireland have paid an emotional tribute at her funeral. Chloe Hipson, 21, from Lanarkshire, died at the scene of a collision ...

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