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Trump and Republicans are failing to distinguish most voters from MAGA die-hards.

Marie Vivian O’Connor, of Melville, N.Y., died Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. She was born in Mill Hall on March 30, 1927 and grew up in Mill Hall. She married E

With Donald Trump’s victory in the New Hampshire primary election, the Republicans’ choice for the presidential election is nearly locked.

Near the end of “The Edge of Sadness,” Father Hugh Kennedy tells old Charlie Carmody that hatred “is a sin, Mr. Carmody. A grave sin: a sin against charity.”

Alice McDermott is back with her ninth novel, joining the elite Catholic company of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor.

The good news for anyone whose literary tastes have been strongly influenced by the Catholic novels of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Francois Mauriac, Georges Bernanos and more is this: The new Alice McDermott novel, 'Absolution,' has arrived.

There is a time stay, and a time to go. It happens to everyone. To athletes and to public figures. I remember many years ago reading the novel, “The Last

“I often look back on a book I thought was wonderful and inspiring and found it to be maudlin and flowery or have some other defect of character I overlooked,” says the journalist, whose new book is the novel “Mr. Texas.” “It could be that literary fashions have changed or I’ve gotten older, and of course both are true.”

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Cluny deals mostly with the dead — writers whose books have been out of print for decades and can only be found in used bookstores, if at all.