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  • In the Know
    By Nancy MacDonnell

    ORLANDO (1928), VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) Virginia Woolf described Orlando, a fantastical biography-cumwork-of-fiction, as “a writer's holiday.” It is in fact a valentine to the poet Vita Sackville-West, for whom Woolf nourished a ...

  • In the Know: The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool
    By Nancy MacDonell

    ORLANDO ( 1928 ) , VIRGINIA WOOLF ( 1882-1941 ) Virginia Woolf described Orlando , a fantastical biography - cumwork - of - fiction , as “ a writer's holiday . ” It is in fact a valentine to the poet Vita Sackville - West , for whom ...

  • In the Know: The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool
    By Nancy MacDonell

    In her roomsize tableaux, Kara Walker takes a genteel eighteenthcentury parlor craft, the paper silhouette, in which a subject's profile is cut out of paper and mounted against a contrasting color, and appropriates it to depict the ...

  • In the Know
    By Natalie Grant

    ... was obviously too rich , too successful , too gorgeous for her ! But when Jeremy insisted on joining Marlo in the search for the missing girl , she somehow couldn't bring herself to say no .... # 461 CHEEK TO CHEEK • Lynn Patrick In ...

  • In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence
    By Russell T. Warne

    Consensus and controversy about IQ [Review of the book The IQ controversy: The media and public policy by M. Snyderman & S. Rothman]. Contemporary Psychology, 35, 428–430. Turkheimer, E. (2007). Race and IQ. Cato Unbound.

  • In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence
    By Russell T. Warne

    Every child is gifted. Preschool makes children smarter. Western understandings of intelligence are inappropriate for other cultures. These are some of the statements about intelligence that are common in the media and in popular culture.