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Community colleges alone enroll roughly 44% of all undergraduates, yet they are rarely featured in mainstream narratives.—
Yolanda Watson Spiva,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025 -
The organization is working to transform cultural norms and narratives surrounding aging, disability and care, as well as make change through federal and state-level policies and build power among the people who have been touched by care.—
Katherine Schaffstall,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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The vast encyclopedic architecture of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) or Mason & Dixon (1997) gives way here to a series of detective fictions each set in a distinct historical moment, each featuring a reluctant investigator sifting through the wreckage of cultural paranoia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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The fictions that result, many so small and meaningless, can be accepted without much trouble.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
26 Nov. 2025
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The two men exchange grateful texts later that evening, home safe and stumped about where to go next.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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In cellphone communications shared exclusively with McClatchy and the Herald in October, there are hundreds of texts and chats between Goudreau and Álvarez.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Despite all the anecdotes from the 1980s, except in rare cases of localized coyote culture, the vast majority of town coyotes are not scavenging behind Sonic and Burger King.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Friends and even random people who have messaged her on Instagram now sit around her dining room table, stuff packages, and share anecdotes from their recent trips to NPS sites.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
7 Jan. 2026
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This piece was made with linen, paper yarns, silk and cotton fabric.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025
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The historic firm, which started making tweed as camouflage in 1846, achieves an ombré effect with yarns that are dyed separately and then blended together.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
11 Dec. 2025
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College leaders also credit their work to reduce campus costs — laundry is free and students get yearly credits for textbooks, for example.—
Collin Binkley,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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College leaders also credit their work to reduce campus costs — laundry is free and students get yearly credits for textbooks, for example.—
Collin Binkley,
Fortune,
11 Dec. 2025
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Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.—
Data Skrive,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Below, Dyens and Miailhe speak to Deadline about the importance of unearthing human stories amid the tragedy of the World War II era.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
7 Jan. 2026
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DeWoskin's poems, essays, and articles have appeared in journals and anthologies including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Baffler, Ploughshares, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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The film follows filmmaker, cinematographer and VFX artist Martinez’s directorial work on anthologies V/H/S, V/H/S/Beyond and Southbound.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Novels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novels. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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