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FOREVERLANDOn the Divine Tedium of MarriageBy Heather HavrileskySometimes the dedication of a book is integral to understanding it. ''Foreverland,'' a memoir of a marriage that proposes to illuminate marriage itself, [...]

SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GOBy Lionel Shriver When we meet them in their 50s, the Wilkinsons, Kay and Cyril, a married couple, she a nurse and he a [...]

BILLION DOLLAR LOSER The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork By Reeves Wiedeman Who doesn't love to see a tycoon ruined? Who doesn't love the tale [...]

Byline: by WALTER KIRN Photograph by KEVIN RUSS CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, NEW MEXICO Under a ghostly early-evening moon, I crouched and braced myself with my right arm and [...]

IT WAS 4:19 p.m. and I was driving in worsening traffic through Los Angeles, about to make a phone call to a friend about a TV script we'd written together [...]

SHADOWLANDSFear and Freedom at the Oregon StandoffBy Anthony McCann THIS LANDHow Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American WestBy Christopher Ketcham The January 2016 armed occupation of Oregon's Malheur [...]

I KNEW WE'D BOUGHT WALNUTS at the store that week, and I wanted to add some to my oatmeal. I called to my wife and asked her where she'd put [...]

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE, my traveler friends kept telling me, to visit the Grand Canyon for the first time--but, for me, it was definitely getting there. I was 47 years [...]

I think your suggestion is. Can we do two things at once? Well, we're of the view, that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. --Richard Armitage, […]

A new kind of revolution is taking place across America, with respect to sexual abstinence and sexual morality.

On the bus ride down to St. Paul to take the test that will help determine who will get ahead in life, who will stay put, and who will fall [...]

On a Sunday afternoon in May of last year Warren Buffett, America's second richest man and, some feel, the greatest investor in its history, was meeting the press in an [...]

The slobbish nature of a person and making others life miserable due to it is described. The code of living with slobbishness, qualities of a slobbish person and his experiences are also mentioned.

According to popular textbook histories of the twentieth century's greatest national scandals, from the fixing of the 1919 World Series to the quiz-show fraud of the 1950s to Watergate, there [...]

Growing up is at time in our thinking. Jeff Strunk is a character whose behavior conveys a lot about right thinking and attitudes.

Jersey city is supposed to be full of Arab Muslims. Media and Internet searches confirm that it is to Islamic-fundamentalist violence that Dodge City was to cattle rustling.

Although the Constitution doesn't directly mention it, Americans have always reserved the right to reinvent themselves--to wade into the waters of rebirth and emerge with new faiths, new livelihoods, new [...]

A former Mormon discusses rebellion in Salt Lake City, the city that will host the 2002 Winter Olympics. Despite the Mormon presence in the micromanagement of the citizens of the city, rebels have sprung up in the relatively innocuous forms of coffee drinkers and smokers and Mohawk wearers.

An evaluation of former erotic dancer and 'Playboy' Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith is made. In 1994 Smith married Texan oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, more than 60 years her senior. She continues to battle with his family over a $475m settlement from his estate.

Limousine drivers in Los Angeles, CA, are profiled. The fact that their passengers often ignore them is highlighted.

An account of rallies held by the US Reform Party from November 1999 until its convention in March 2000 is presented, with focus on the instablity of this political movement and the problems of its leaders.

It is argued that while the US Army protects the country's independence, it is the US businessmen that protect the nation's booming economy.

Tourists can avail of week-long vacation packages worth $1,000 or less in Marrakesh, Morocco, Paris, France and Caracas, Venezuela. The cities offer travelers affordable accommodation and a host of dining, shopping and entertainment opportunities.

The Lone Mountain Ranch is a ski resort in Montana that caters to cross-country skiing or Nordic skiing aficionados. The resort offers other activities such as snowman building contests, midnight singalongs and a sleigh ride.

MISLAID By Nell Zink 242 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. Toward the middle of Nell Zink's ''Mislaid,'' a screwball comic novel of identity, Karen, a Southern white girl whose lesbian mother [...]

HYDE By Daniel Levine 397 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $24. Robert Louis Stevenson's ''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' is an oblique and artful Gothic tale framed [...]

In the article, the author, who has owned and handled guns, offers his views on gun control legislation in the U.S. as of February 2013. He discusses covering the 2012 Aurora, Colorado mass shooting as a journalist, how the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting increased the debate over appropriate firearm legislation, and what it feels like, physically, to shoot a gun. Wayne LaPierre, the head of the pro-gun group National Rifle Association (NRA), the military command USNORTHCOM (Northern Command), and the ease with which one can obtain firearms in the U.S. are also mentioned.