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Newsom’s father’s family was full of more traditional Democrats and Irish Catholic storytellers who worked in banking, homebuilding, law enforcement and law.—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2026 -
Both photographers are storytellers, impatient with the limitations of the photograph as a document, and looking for ways to open it up to the imagination.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Starting in 1965, King served as the cultural director of Mobilization for Youth for five years, before founding NFT in 1970 to give a voice primarily to Black playwrights, actors, directors, designers and others in American theaters.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2026
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The script was written by Wish Collective, a group of five women playwrights.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
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More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.—
Rosemary Counter,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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