In the first half of the book, there are the expected short stories, and they’re just as good as you think they are. If you haven’t read the first two anthologies, Nocturnes and Night Music, you should. And when you do, you’ll run into the Caxton Private Lending Library & Book...
Enriquez shows us just enough of the arcana without dwelling on its mechanics— we see it and feel it through the characters, and we experience the real-world emotional consequences of the cult’s power without knowing precisely how it all works. And it is that unknown “how?” that is at...
The whole piece is worth reading to think about the value we put on the hard and sometimes menial work of taking care of sick people in their homes.I might try this link format again if there is remotely any interest in it.Standard ...
Benjamin finagled his way through the first world war bypretending to be ill in Switzerlandbut came into his own in the interwar years. A European intellectual of the highest degree, he managed to become friends with the political theoristHannah Arendt, the novelistHermann Hesse, the playwrightBe...
hobbyist. We love hobbies because they are something to do that isn’t work, something that we choose to do. But they still so often require toil; we are still proud of ourselves when we perform our hobbies efficiently, competently. Pursuit of mastery is implied, if not always present.”...
Sarah Silverman is saucy and attractive, too. If you don't think that's very important, you're wrong--but you can write us an angry letter, not invite us to parties, or tip off Nina Totenberg and NPR. The Future is Not for Weenies.We have this Vision of It: ...
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Julien was a tennis instructor with steel shoulders, blue eyes and two terraces we could never sit on because he stuffed them both with his marijuana plants. Everyone back home in New York City told me that if I’d move to France I’d fall for some French guy, and that French guy was...