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Jennifer Schuessler

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Entertainment
8 Aug 2024
Hear the name Emily Dickinson, and you’ll probably think of the virginal woman in white, the reclusive Belle of Amherst who died with her “letter to the world” — as she wrote in one of her enigmatic poems — unsent.
A Very Modern Emily Dickinson (Twerking Included)
Entertainment
8 Aug 2024
She’s already a Supreme Court justice and a pop-culture action hero. And now, Ruth Bader Ginsburg can claim another outsize distinction: winner of a $1 million prize.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wins $1M Berggruen Prize
Entertainment
7 Aug 2024
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1919, shortly after Congress passed the 19th Amendment, the Smithsonian acquired a few relics from the nearly century-long struggle for women’s suffrage.
The Complex History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Entertainment
7 Aug 2024
WASHINGTON — Ever since Donald Trump laid waste to its ideological shibboleths with his victory at the polls, the conservative intellectual class has been scrambling to keep up with him.
Polishing the Nationalist Brand in the Trump Era
World
6 Aug 2024
PHILADELPHIA — Since her book “Lead From the Outside” came out in paperback last month, Stacey Abrams has been showing up in places befitting a woman whose razor-thin loss in the 2018 Georgia governor’s race turned her into a national political star.
For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History
Entertainment
5 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — The Grolier Club, a redoubt of bibliophiles on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, has no shortage of stately, book-lined interiors that scream — or at least murmur quietly — “serious collectors here.”
A Book Lover's Haven Turns 100
Entertainment
25 Jun 2024
NEW YORK — For a young playwright in New York, it’s one thing to draw buzz from critics and theater fans. It’s quite another to have your dense and boundary-pushing off-Broadway play become a talking point among religious conservatives — and not because they hate it.
A Play 'Meant to Trouble' From a Writer Raised in Conservatism
Entertainment
3 Apr 2019
An online archive relating to the fight for women’s suffrage; preservation of the papers of writer Eudora Welty; a project to provide public access to hundreds of hours of interviews made for the landmark civil-rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize”; and restoration of the historic Christ Church, in Philadelphia, which once counted Betsy Ross and George Washington among its members, are among the recipients of new grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Humanities endowment announces new grants amid old threats