By MATT OTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence fell for the fourth straight month as Americans’ anxiety about their financial futures declined to a 12-year low amid rising concern…
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On An African Abroad
Ọlábísí Àjàlá in June 21, 1957, when he was 27-year-old Nigerian student of Fellows Road. He is pictured here in the early stages of his journey, as way he made his way…
Longmont political organizer Katie Wallace to replace Sonya Jaquez Lewis in Colorado Senate District 17
By Ellis Arnold, Boulder Daily Camera Longmont political organizer Katie Wallace will fill the vacant state Senate District 17 seat left open after the resignation of embattled former state Sen. Sonya Jaquez…
Dreams from the Third Reich
J. J. Grandville, A Dream of Crime and Punishment, 1847, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Charlotte Beradt began having strange dreams after Hitler took power in Germany in 1933. She was a…
Kent Denver Sun Devils play for first state basketball title since 1997
When sports stopped, Todd Schayes decided it was time to go fast. In his first three decades at Kent Denver School, Schayes was a coach his peers envied. He ran the same…
Making a Claim on Language: A Conversation with Adania Shibli
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF ADANIA SHIBLI. The Winter issue of The Paris Review opens with “Camouflage,” a story by Adania Shibli, the first line of which nudges us, ominously, toward a much broader…
Why are clocks set forward in the spring? Thank wars, confusion and more
By JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious…
Accurate Models of Reality
Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up…
Michael Malone explains why he took technical foul 49 seconds into game
DETROIT — Michael Malone must not like the view from the visiting team’s bench in Detroit. For the second season in a row, he was prepared to spend his annual visit to…
The Living Death Drug
Photographs courtesy of Lisa Carver. My cousin Lorrie invited me on a ten-day retreat in Peru where we would partake in ancient ceremonies involving the Living Death Drug ayahuasca and— “Don’t tell…