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Podcast: The Writer’s Voice Listen to Joyce Carol Oates read “The Frenzy ... in this fraught period before Christmas, after which, he has decided, his life will shatter and reorganize ...

Carol McNicoll, who has died aged 81, was a pioneering studio potter whose witty, postmodern work transformed the ceramics scene in 1970s Britain. She belonged to a cohort of women who studied at ...

HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Kate Middleton is keeping up a new Christmas tradition! On Friday, the Princess of Wales stepped out at Westminster Abbey for the third annual holiday carol concert.