Thorne Dreyer, Notes from the Underground: 77 Articles that Bring the Past to Life. Austin: New Journalism Project, 2025.

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More than 10,000. That’s how many interviews Sir David Frost conducted across his extraordinary career in television, ...

Meta is laying off over 100 employees from its Reality Labs division, which focuses on VR, AR, and wearable hardware, an ...

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The day the Vietnam War ended has become a high-profile celebration in Vietnam. But debates over the name of the April 30 ...

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I didn’t write my first best-selling novel until I was 65.” Credit: James Brickwood “I am a late bloomer,” she announces in ...