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Brad Leithauser likes to look for poetry in graveyards. An author and poet himself, there's something he values greatly in tombstone epitaphs: brevity. In a piece for The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog, Leithauser cites tiny works that speak volumes.

One author’s take on ghost stories, Abraham Lincoln and the dead.

The home of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner was rededicated this weekend in Oxford, Miss. Rowan Oak, which underwent a $1.3 million restoration, draws more than 20,000 literary pilgrims each year.

News Wrap: U.S., British forces leave Afghan military base after 13 years

We’re joined by Dr. Martha Bireda, author of “Reflective Discipline: Reducing Racial Disparity in Referrals and Suspensions” which explores these trends, and proposes ways for teachers, administrators, and school resource officers to take cultural differences and implicit biases into account during disciplinary situations.

Dig into the history of the Cuban sandwich with the authors of the new book “The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers.”

The long and winding history of the sugar industry in the United States is complicated to say the least. We talk with the author of the new book “On the Knife: A History of Sugar in Florida” which distills that story into a narrative of the experimentation and entrepreneurship, and the politics and money, that has led to the modern sugar industry as we know it today.

In a case closely watched by Florida businesses and environmental groups, the Biden administration Monday argued that a dispute about permitting authority for projects that affect wetlands should go back to a federal district judge.Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies contended in a 66-page appeals-court brief that U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss made errors this year when he vacated a 2020 decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that shifted permitting authority from federal officials to Florida.

Ten people were shot during Tuesday morning's rush hour and another 13 people suffered injuries ranging from smoke inhalation to falls and panic attacks, authorities said.

Getting a "File Not Found" or "Error 404" message is annoying, but in the academic world, it can be a minor tragedy. One professor explains why we need those pages, and what's being done to save them.