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Arts Oct 13

5 moody graphic novels that influenced the Harry Potter illustrator’s work

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The first American Vietnam War POW on why we need to understand the war

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How this slave descendent is helping reframe history at Madison’s home

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Here are five lesser-known and beloved works by Jane Austen to read on the 200th anniversary of her death.

Arts Jul 14

5 episodes of television you should be watching now

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Arts Jun 15

46 years later, Yoko Ono gets songwriting credit with John Lennon for ‘Imagine’

In a 1980 interview, Lennon said the song “should be credited as a Lennon-Ono song because a lot of it — the lyric and the concept — came from Yoko.” He said he received inspiration from Ono’s 1964 book “Grapefruit.”…

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