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Why Books and Movies and Life All Suck Now

9 June 2026 at 19:00

Maybe it's the midlife crisis talking, but the racist purge of straight white men from arts and entertainment has degraded all books and films, says Nick Dixon, and left behind only meaningless, endless culture war.

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Robert Coles, Pulitzer-Winning Child Psychiatrist, Is Dead at 97

7 June 2026 at 23:14
His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

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Robert Coles eschewed ideologies and psychiatric orthodoxies to visit the homes of children — first in the American South and then around the world — to listen intently to what they had to say.

John Bolton, Ex-Trump Adviser, Reaches Deal to Plead Guilty Over Classified Information

The former Trump national security adviser plans to plead guilty to a count of illegal retention of classified information, which could result in a fine and possibly prison time of up to five years.

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John R. Bolton’s indictment accused him of mishandling classified information when he compiled notes for a book that was critical of President Trump.

Marjane Satrapi, the Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56

Her popular graphic novel series, published in the early 2000s, followed an Iranian girl through the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

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Marjane Satrapi in 2022. She was one of the best-known exponents of a form of graphic novel that combined political history and memoir.
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