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Catholic sensualist. Hostessing fundamentalist. Culture for all. Senior Editor, US @unherd.
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The Noonday Devil

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By Valerie Stivers Verified
| Portico
My mother, back in a less gentle era of parenting, had a characteristic reply to the complaints of bored children, often uttered just before she smacked you: If you’re bored, you’re boring. She wasn’t describing the child’s effect on others, but an inherent quality: A person doesn’t get bored if he has interests, motivation, and a lively brain.
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The abuse of a black teen’s death Nolan Wells’s drowning is the latest “reckoning”

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By Valerie Stivers Verified
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Wells’s family has sought media attention and hired high-profile civil-rights lawyer Benjamin Crump. Credit: Getty Ben CrumpBrandon TatumDeath investigationHorn IslandMississippiNolan WellsRace paranoiaThe New York Times Prefer us on Google Americans were supposed to have left racial reckonings behind, in 2020 or thenabouts. Yet the death of Nolan Wells, a teenage star black athlete from Ocean Springs, Miss., has become an opportunity for a mini-reckoning in the past few weeks.
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A novelist’s dark portrait of Natalie Portman Rachel Cusk’s new book mines the actress’s life

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By Valerie Stivers Verified
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Portman’s fame alienates her from true selfhood, Cusk writes. Credit: Getty Book clubsChristian DiorLéon: The ProfessionalLife of MNatalie PortmanParisRachel Cusk Prefer us on Google The actor Natalie Portman has long seemed more like a person who wants to brand herself as smart than like a person who is actually smart — and her decision to let her friend Rachel Cusk write a book about her seems to confirm this. Portman has read many Rachel Cusk books.
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