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NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Epstein, a publishing innovator and bon vivant who helped put the classics in paperback, co-founded The New York Review of Books and worked with such novelists as E.L. Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth, has died at age 93.
NEW YORK — Jason Epstein, a publishing innovator and bon vivant who helped put the classics in paperback, co-founded The New York Review of Books and
Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his 1844 essay on character that, “Men of character are the conscience of the society in which they belong.” Bringing the essay forward, we would
Roy Exum: Easter Morning, 2021 Sunday, April 4, 2021 - by Roy Exum Roy Exum Ten years ago on an Easter Sunday like this one, the Rev. Todd B. Jones stood in the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church in Nashville and told of the shortest Easter sermon ever given. It is so short it is easily memorized and impossible to forget. As Christians the world over celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus today, allow me to give my space on this most meaningful Holy Day of the year to the saintly Mary Magdalene, who albeit unknowingly, encompassed all of our Christian belief into just five words. Ye...
Transcript Casey McDermott: I'm Casey McDermott, in for Laura Knoy and this is The Exchange. When is the last time you read a presidential biography that does not just focus on that particular politician's biography of their childhood or perhaps their early political career, but also includes lists of things like his pettiest acts or his frenemies. Today on The Exchange, we'll revisit the legacy of perhaps the most mythologized founding father, George Washington, with historian Alexis Coe. She challenges us to rethink not only what we think we know about our first president, but a...