Captured

7 comically large, award-winning pumpkins

My, what big gourds you have

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'Tis the season for competitive vegetable growing, so get out those oversized gourds and let's see what you've got. If they're anywhere near the size of these mighty pumpkins from years past, well, carve us impressed.

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The Week contest: Oligarch auction

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Samuel Goldman

Has the novel simply gotten boring?

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Feature

6 eye-catching homes from the 1960s

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Feature

The Week contest: Tattered fashion

Most Popular

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Briefing

'Why are we willing to live with this carnage?'

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'Go in there! Go in there!'

Uvalde gunman was inside school for an hour as parents urged police to act

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Opinion