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To help young minds engage with this important occasion, here are three sample essays-150, 300, and 500 words-perfect for school assignments, speech competitions, and personal reflection. Mahavir ...

Artist Josiah McElheny talks about the objects in his exhibition Total Reflective Abstraction (2007) at Donald Young Gallery in Chicago. ART21: What role does beauty play in your work? MCELHENY: The ...

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long? Jehuda Lindenblatt in November.Credit...Elinor Carucci for The New York Times ...

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