题目My friend was heartbroken.Her 8-year-old son had come home from school reporting that they were weighed in gym class,and that it had led to a discussion among the boys about their weights.It was the first time her son had realized that he was significantly heavie...
I read Klein’s first book No Logo several years ago, which I felt had already dated somewhat over a decade after its release. In contrast, the ideas explored in ‘Doppelganger’ are very much of the here and now, having been published just last year, but I think this book will remain...
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh is the neurosurgeon’s account of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer shortly after his retirement. If you have read Marsh’s first two books about his career, Do No Harm and Admissions, then you will know that he doesn’t su...
Because your brain focuses on what you lack, and takes for granted what you have. If you feel you lack leisurely dinners with friends, and you imagine people having them in the past, then the past seems better regardless of the facts. When you feel you lack something, your brain rings t...
I could just as easily have had this cartoon’s flashbacks be to the sixties or even fifties, or to the eighties, but the seventies were when both Jenn and I were kids, so this seemed the most natural. From “The Illusion of Moral Decline,” by Adam M. Mastroianni & Daniel T. Gilbe...
“You have a wonderfully feminine quality.”“I love your body. It’s so responsive.”“Any man in his right mind would want you.” All lies men tell women. All lies I have cherished. When our relationship ended, I packed and shipped for safekeeping to a friend the emails one man and...
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[during the Occupation] was making sure you got enough food and clothes and coal,’ Louis tells his mother. This both is and isn’t true: we see all the characters shaped and changed by international events. Although their reality may be measured out in the availability of provisions and ...
As with her presentation of the arguments for a single-party system, Rawiri makes the characters who express these views alarmingly persuasive. (Indeed, were it not for the dedication of the novel to a friend who struggled to conceive, it would sometimes be tempting to think the author’s sy...
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh is the neurosurgeon’s account of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer shortly after his retirement. If you have read Marsh’s first two books about his career, Do No Harm and Admissions, then you will know that he doesn’t su...