George R. R. Martin Likens Writing Game of Thrones to Chronicling an Entire World War
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Emma Thompson Says She Was Kissed by a Perverted Magician as a Child
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Let the Games Begin
Check out Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, and more, in costume, in our gallery of exclusive images shot on set.
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The Vatican’s Gay Secrets
Despite rumors of a powerful “gay lobby” within the Church, life for homosexual cardinals and clerics exists in a hidden netherworld—which Michael Joseph Gross now reveals.
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The Day Before
David Kamp talks to the people of Newtown, Connecticut, and re-creates the heartbreakingly ordinary day that led up to last year’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary.
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The Rebirth of Liberty Ross
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