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Many consider Lorde’s latest balmy record to be the antithesis of its austere predecessor, but the albums have more in common than meets the eye: Enter the sublime.
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UC Berkeley School of Law professor John Yoo has been consulting the White House on a political theory that allows a sitting president to impose policies without congressional approval.
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As a result of Taylor’s compact prose, the melodrama of real life resists becoming trite melodrama on the fictional page.
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While planning out the end of your month, explore the educational opportunities available to learn about Black history and celebrate the cultures that thrive year-round.
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Solnit was one of 10 authors to receive recognition in the nonfiction category. The finalists will be named Oct. 10, and the winners will be announced at a ceremony Nov. 14.
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Anybody who uses the Discover Weekly feature on Spotify will be familiar with the bizarre feeling of not only having their diary read out loud.
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While it may only be the fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival, the festival is already a mainstay in Berkeley. It’s no wonder why.
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Two UC Berkeley graduate students and one alumna named in a pair of defamation suits by campus assistant professor Blake Wentworth, will file a motion to dismiss his complaint amidst a campus investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him.
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In a rural village in Abkhazia, in the shadow of the mountains, a tangerine farm sees the dance of life and death play out within its quiet borders. Zaza Urushadze’s “Tangerines” brings the 1992 Georgian-Abkhaz conflict into the confines of an orchard. The Georgian writer-director takes an anti-war stance in
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With both the Washington Post and the Guardian winning the Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story on National Security Agency surveillance, I thought I’d have a go at winning one myself. By now, the fiery outrage most people feel over the fact that their government is spying on them has receded
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