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A stroll through the sprawling, shamrock-green quads of Trinity College, or a wander through the atmospheric halls of the university library, shelves heaving with old tomes. A late night spent ...

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Geese must truly be the coolest new band since The White Stripes, because my phone ain’t blown up like this since New Radicals announced reforming for just one day for the 2021 Presidential ...

Re “The Dogged, Irrational Persistence of Literary Fiction,” by Gerald Howard (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 20): Defending the continuing vitality of the literary novel, Mr. Howard points to ...

Between the Trump administration's cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and the gutting of the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, federal ...

At a time when the world offers “many counter-examples” of what a healthy marriage should look like, Pope Leo XIV has urged couples to look to Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin — the parents of St. Thérèse ...

At a time when the world offers “many counter-examples” of what a healthy marriage should look like, Pope Leo XIV has urged couples to look to Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin — the parents of St. Thérèse ...

Our annual Readers' Choice Awards winners have been announced! We loved poring over the results to find out what’s sticking with readers and spinning the data into a snapshot of the current moment in ...