Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008.

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Zoé Mohm has studied the simplified storytelling devices of the early medieval period as well as her father’s collection of ...

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Maura Higgins is an Irish television personality, model, and social media influencer, best known for her appearance on the reality show Love Island. She has since appeared on Dancing on Ice and ...

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Book by man raised by last of north Cork’s gentry provides ‘inside story’ of lives led by upper-class ...