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Spike Lee and the limits of homage

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But imitation doesn’t always live up to the standard set by the original [...]

Handing me a pamphlet on grief, the woman asked if I had a name picked out for her. I stared [...]

Being brought up in a village in the heart of the English countryside, I remember how the narrow roads were [...]

Is there a difference between eating because you have to and eating because you love food? I think there is, [...]

I recently began volunteering for Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington. Samaritan was founded by a group of Washington, D.C.-area Episcopal [...]

It’s no secret that food is its own language. Food can convey immense history, culture, and emotions through its array [...]

A bright blue awning extends over my head, shading me from the bright sun rapidly warming Piazza Giacomo Matteotti. A [...]

During my recent, biannual house cleaning, I came across a blue-lined sheet of paper from my childhood, where my friend [...]

Originally published in 1937, Zora Neale Hurston’s fourth and final novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, has come to be [...]

Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen and in the light of day rarely withstand serious scrutiny. But when the [...]

I called us the Zoomers. I was in my mid-twenties, a novice to Rome life. Behind the wheel of the [...]