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The expansion of the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education marks the end of an era, when free speech issues were the sole province of American liberalism After years of planning, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, better...

As the Supreme Court threatens to roll back abortion protections, David Cronenbergs body horror film "Crimes of the Future" takes on eerie relevance.

The editor-reporter-photographer says he’ll do whatever he can to help and hopes others will follow his lead

DAVID CRONENBERG’S Crimes of the Future is a stunning film: visually, emotionally, viscerally, and narratively. It is both hallucinatory and intensely real—an echo chamber of Cronenbergiana colliding with a city whose three-thousand-year history can be mined but never contained. It sounds ridiculously simple, but it is Athens, as location and inspiration, that makes Crimes a new direction for Cronenberg, even as it is possibly his magnum opus. The movie, which takes its title and thankfully ...

SO CONCLUDES JAMES BALLARD, the conveniently named narrator of J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash, while contemplating a tryst with the story’s already damaged homme fatal, Vaughan, a brutal and charismatic ex-scientist whose current “project” documents grisly collisions between human flesh and Detroit dashboards. Just as Ballard found a green light for his darkest imaginings in the peculiar resonance of the car crash, David Cronenberg discovered in this “deviant technology” a new way “to ...

Read the Express-News letters to the editor for May 22.

Gabrielle Blair may seem an unlikely person to talk about unwanted pregnancies. But the Mormon mom of six is leading the way via Twitter.

The painting came to auction for the first time in two centuries…

The painting came to auction for the first time in two centuries…

The painting came to auction for the first time in two centuries.