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With some people, money and sex are the only truths. It’s the ultimate delinquency to believe that gratification. ..

Schubert’s​ imagination was unusually literary. Words released music in him: poems about desire, love, loss, ...

For much of the second half of his life, T. S. Eliot was a man on the run, retreating to actual or symbolic boltholes, ...

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ‘. ..

Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried nowor less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the timeit takes to various accounts echoing in my library to ensurepassage broke. ..

The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something. ..

Despite the misinformation and alienation that have led so many citizens to regard democracy in general with despair or. ..

Solvej Balle’s serial novel takes the idea of repetition and uses it to make these ancient, impossible problems of. ..

Although she often responded to questions with anecdotes and talked about the role of chance and the necessity of. ..

Around​ the year 1500, in Eisenach, Thuringia, a woman gave birth to a mouse. According to rumour, this ‘beautiful and virtuous’ woman had, during her pregnancy, encountered a. ..

Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than active. ...

It is tempting to frame the attack of 28 February as a spectacular aberration, an act of criminal aggression that could. ..

Brown’s premiership was left as a bit of a mystery: an example of formidable talent, experience and hard work somehow. ..

Huey​ Long – Louisiana’s legendary governor, senator and would-be presidential candidate – loved the campaign trail. ‘Watch me vaudeville ’em, ’ he would say, ...

In all of Flannery O’Connor’s work, there isn’t a single character you could describe as admirable, or even. ..

What is it with these Dutchmen? Did human subjects not exist before them? Did they write the book on patience? (All. ..

You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman or. ..

Trump’s goals in Iran are expansive, shifting, and potentially impossible.

Abu Dhabi, Doha, and Riyadh are weighing their options.

From Azerbaijan to the Indian Ocean, the conflict’s impact is spreading.