I would tell a different story about the decline of literary fiction, and it is a story about social pressure and conformity.

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UVM’s Board of Trustees announced Marlene Tromp as the university’s next president on March 20, 2025, following an extensive ...

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Britons' eager embrace of their Jewish connections are a welcome antidote to what happened at Glastonbury, writes a ...

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