Over the hill, under scrutiny
A tweak. A twinge. A minor ache in the knee. A mild stitch in the side. For most of us, the process of aging arrives in what the showbiz folks...
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Scintillating prose — the second time around
On the fifth floor of the baiduhai Tower is a square windowless room accessed by a single door. This room is called, with a regrettable lack of imagination, the...
Scintillating prose — the second time around
On the fifth floor of the baiduhai Tower is a square windowless room accessed by a single door. This room is called, with a regrettable lack of imagination, the...
King epic takes on time travel
In every life, a little fall must reign. One slip, one missed opportunity, one hesitation or wrong turn can haunt you forever, casting an intractable shadow over the rest of...
King epic takes on time travel
In every life, a little fall must reign. One slip, one missed opportunity, one hesitation or wrong turn can haunt you forever, casting an intractable shadow over the rest of...
They’re playing our poem
If you want to make Stephen Sondheim mad enough to swat you over the head with a rolled-up musical score, try this: Call him a poet. As Sondheim insists in...
They’re playing our poem
If you want to make Stephen Sondheim mad enough to swat you over the head with a rolled-up musical score, try this: Call him a poet. As Sondheim insists in...
First-person singular: ‘Hemingway’s Boat’ gets to the rugged heart of a complicated, captivating man
Every writer has two lives: The life that contains elements common to all lives — birth and death and everything in between — and a second life. The second life...
When author gets in the way
Modern psychiatry has robbed the world of its monsters. We know so much more about the brain, about the complex interaction of chemicals that determines an individual's fate, than ever...
When author gets in the way
Modern psychiatry has robbed the world of its monsters. We know so much more about the brain, about the complex interaction of chemicals that determines an individual's fate, than ever...