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Appeared in the March 5, 2026, print edition as 'Coach Who Led Notre Dame To National Title Dies at 89'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

In February 2017, for the first time in its long history, the Washington Post adopted an official slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025

This is foretold at the start, when the opening card quotes a phrase from "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War," another of Nguyen's works.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2024

Admirers of Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut, “Olga Dies Dreaming,” will be pleased to encounter in Gonzalez’s follow-up novel, “Anita de Monte Laughs Last,” not one but two protagonists who echo the titular Olga’s best qualities.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as MoIIoy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way: “There I am then, he leaves me, he’s in a hurry.”

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author