“The Midnight Special” offers an unconventional cultural history with profiles of five artists influenced by the carceral system. By Dwight Garner Novels by Colson Whitehead and Daniel Mason, the ...

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The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder Price, is an enthusiastic go-getter with a strong ...

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June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.