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I wouldn’t hang Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” in the living room, but I could stare at Janina Baranowska’s “Actaeon Devoured by His Hounds” every evening over dinner.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023

Devoured planets are one likely culprit for those souped-up stellar spins.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2022

This essay is adapted from the new book “Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World.”

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022

"Devoured her work, taught her work and she taught me so much," Maya Harris, an activist, author and the sister of U.S.

From Reuters • Dec. 15, 2021

Devoured by jealousy, and a thousand feelings to which I had hitherto been a stranger, I gazed at the fortunate being who was so strangely honored by this communication from Dus, with the bitterest envy.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore