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Katherine Rosen, a student at Harvard, posts on Facebook: Two assignments from a magazine journalism class last year (which counted for ...

Born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, the Queen of Soul is 72 today. Here she is live on Soul Train in 1973, performing “Rock Steady...

I wish people wouldn’t call Alain de Botton a philosopher. I wish he wouldn’t call himself one. He isn’t. He has never had an academ...

Joshua Drummond on his portrait (above) of Michael Laws, former mayor of Whanganui, titled Horrible Painting of Michael Laws , which h...

Tyler Cowen on a Dutch idea to do an iTunes for journalism . Good luck with that. Quote unquote from the comments: The whole iTunes anal...

If you missed Jono and Ben at Ten last night, you missed this, their musical Lorde Almighty starring Rose Matafeo as Lorde. Brilliant, an...

From the 7 March edition of the Waikato Times , a complaint that the movie Noah , starring Russell Crowe, is not historically accurate: N...

This cautionary tale is a long story, but may be useful for writers. A friend of a friend in Auckland wrote a chick-lit novel, went on ...

If the word “you” can be both singular and plural, why can’t “they”? The Economist ’s Johnson on this thorny subject  with, as always, lite...

From an Economist column on how to set a value on biodiversity in the interests of conservation: Zaglossus Attenboroughi, a species of ...