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Bliss Broyard was 23 when her mother told her, as her father was dying in the hospital from prostate cancer, what her father, Anatole Broyard, had been unable to tell her on his deathbed. Raised in a ...

Do you have a deep, dark secret? Edgar Allan Poe is popularly known for writing early-American horror stories. But for me, he is a social scientist who used fiction instead of theory and statistics to ...

Everyone has a secret. As a child, it might be something harmless, like a crush on the kid who sits in front of you on the bus. But as we grow older, our secrets tend to become more complicated. It ...