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How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

How Sigmund Freud Tried to Break and Remake His Fiancée

"He Wanted Martha to Remember That She Was Nothing Very Special"

By Frederick Crews | August 22, 2017

John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

John Berger Contemplates Life and Death at the Graveside of Mahmoud Darwish

A Writer and a Poet in Communion

By John Berger | August 9, 2017

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Disappeared

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Disappeared

Life Imitated Art for the Author of The Little Prince

By Pierre Lassus | August 1, 2017

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

Thoreau and the Search for a Cosmic Community

His Thinking Was Structured by Deep Time and Planetary Space

By Laura Dassow Walls | July 12, 2017

Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

Henry David Thoreau, Tree-Hugger

On the Philosopher's Obsession with a New England Oak Forest

By Richard Higgins | July 12, 2017

The Superhuman Charm of Ernest Hemingway, the “Most Shot-Up Man in America”

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