When Mel Cassidy first became curious about nonmonogamy, there weren’t many helpful resources. Most of the books focused on the transition from monogamy to nonmonogamy, but Cassidy, who goes by them/them pronouns, was “freshly divorced, hadn’t really dated as an adult.” “I was winging it,” said Cassidy, who has since …
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Boris Johnson knows he’s often cast as Donald J. Trump’s populist twin, and he puts up a perfunctory protest. Analogies between Brexit, which he championed, and Trump’s MAGA movement are “pretty treacherous,” he said, and the caricature of himself as a louche, shambling, Eton-and-Oxford version of Trump does no favors …
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Given the sheer volume of horror fiction published over the past decade, it can be hard for the sensitive yet curious reader to know where to start. Fear is heavily individual — what sends me screaming from the room might leave you unmoved — so it’s difficult to predict what …
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“The Apprentice,” a new movie that dramatizes the early years of Donald Trump’s career, ends with a scene between Mr. Trump and an actor who plays me. The year is 1986 and I’m interviewing Mr. Trump for the first time, to begin ghostwriting “The Art of the Deal,” a book …
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This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. There weren’t many opportunities for girls growing up in Senegal under French colonial rule. They could become subservient housewives, farmers or, if they were lucky enough to …
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When you write scary stories for a living, everyone assumes that Halloween must be your favorite holiday. But when I think about Halloween, I often remember it as a day of heartbreaking disappointment. My family was quite poor. I grew up in a tiny house in an Ohio suburb three …
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This summer, my wife, Cree, and I went to Dublin to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We chose it over more exotic destinations because it made sense to us: I’m a book critic and she’s a writer. How could we not go to Dublin, perhaps the most literature-soaked city in …
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