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Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

Javier Marías on the Pain of Drifting Apart from Old Friends

"When and Why Did We Stop Seeing Each Other? I Simply Don't Know"

By Javier Marías | August 30, 2018

On the Birth of Princess Margaret and the Rise of Astrology as We Know It

On the Birth of Princess Margaret and the Rise of Astrology as We Know It

The Royal Family Was Really Into Horoscopes

By Craig Brown | August 6, 2018

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

The Man Who Put Premature Babies in Carnival Sideshows

Martin Couney May Not Have Had Medical Credentials, But He Saved Thousands

By Dawn Raffel | August 3, 2018

When Wilde Met Whitman

When Wilde Met Whitman

As He Told a Friend Years Later, "The Kiss of Walt Whitman is Still on My Lips"

By Michèle Mendelssohn | July 16, 2018

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

David Lynch on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

Bombs, Bullets, and Amputated Feet, Obviously

By David Lynch | July 10, 2018

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

He Holds Up a Lantern for the Rest of Us: Ann Patchett on Donald Hall

Remembering the Late, Great Poet, 1928 - 2018

By Ann Patchett | June 25, 2018

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On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, <em>I Am a Cat</em>

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

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