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Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great?
Near the end of her life, Zora Neale Hurston wrote to her editor at Scribner’s that she was “under the spell of a great ...
The eye behind the lens: AP photographers on pictures capturing horror and emotions of LA fires
As uncontrolled blazes have turned large swaths of Los Angeles into hellscapes the last week, Associated Press photographers ...
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Finding God in the Wildfires
The saints teach that while God himself cannot suffer, he does suffer with us. This is the beautiful truth of the cross. By ...
Octavia Butler Wanted to Prevent Disaster in Los Angeles. Instead, She Predicted It
Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...
The Design Legacy of Los Angeles That Fell to the Fires
The finality of the wildfires’ destruction has taken 10 more cherished buildings — by Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain, Eric Owen ...
Look twice before sharing those viral LA fire videos. Many aren't real
The video wasn't captured during the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles. It dates back to December 2017 when a wildfire spread ...
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Nothing Is What It Seems in Magritte’s Most Iconic Artwork
Rene Magritte's 'The Treachery of Images' is art history's most infamous pipe. We took a closer look at this visual riddle.