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Hurricanes have done more than impact American lives and communities, they have influenced our history and culture, and even ...

Early National America “Let’s talk about cheese.” Just last week, I sat in awe as professor Freeman went on a passionate 9 ...

In her life and work, she moved through the world with a disarming blend of youthful curiosity and daring intelligence.

We got a much closer look at Xbox's upcoming South of Midnight, giving us a better feel of how its bringing the American ...

It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René Descharmes, in 1909. Descharmes reported that, according to someone he knew who ...

Election Day has arrived. While thousands of Wilmington-area residents chose to vote early, many will also be heading to the ...

The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl whose life briefly intersected with Didion’s in the late ...

Dorothy Allison, the Bastard Out of Carolina author who died last week, modeled the power of honesty in her writing and her ...

No matter how you look at them—as outstanding examples of John Browning's genius, an interesting phase in American firearms ...

The author discusses his latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” and his growth as a writer.

Mecklenburg County is the state's largest Democratic stronghold, but hasn’t turned out voters like other urban centers ...