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Missouri's former governor and current Senate candidate Eric Greitens has been accused by his ex-wife of physically assaulting her and their young son.

Email address: O P I N I O N Last week, I taught David Foster Wallace’s essay “Consider the Lobster” to my College Composition classes, which are dual enrollment courses that offer college credits through Southern New Hampshire University. But I wrestled with this decision before ultimately concluding it could be one of those much-ballyhooed “teachable moments.” For those of you unfamiliar with Wallace’s work, here are the crib notes. In 1996, David Foster Wallace published a novel...

Kristen Radtke Writes, and Draws, Our Loneliness By Louisa Ermelino | Feb 26, 2021 When Kristen Radtke started writing about loneliness in 2016, she had no idea of what was to come. Writers are famously prescient, but who could have imagined the global pandemic of Covid-19 and the isolation it would generate? Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (Pantheon, July), Radtke’s latest graphic nonfiction book, is a marvelous deep dive into that universal emotion, b...

Bruce Hutchison visits ZSA ZSA GABOR On the prowl in movieland, for a new series for Maclean’s, this dignified historian started out by dropping in on a sex goddess. He departed neither sadder nor wiser, but it was one of the most memorable interviews since W. C. Fields met Mae West May 23 1959 Bruce Hutchison visits ZSA ZSA GABOR On the prowl in movieland, for a new series for Maclean’s, this dignified historian started out by dropping in on a sex goddess. He d...