The beautiful hetaera Thais was a real woman who inspired poets, artists and sculptors in Athens, Memphis, Alexandria, Babylon and Ecbatana. She traveled with Alexander the Great’s army during his Persian campaign and was the only woman to enter...
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The bigger the adventure, the bigger the risk. But degrees of tragedy aren’t a one-dimensional spectrum, and neither are the ways to...
Nobody ever said human evolution, as a species or as an individual, was simple—or...
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Some inventions people would rather not use—until they have no...
The scope of life may be far wider than most humans think—but there’s at least one human trait that’s likely to persist through even the most extreme...
In this collection of stories, Kureishi chronicles the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. They represent the frustrated and intoxicating, the melancholic and sensitive, capable of great cruelty and willing to break constraints of an old life...
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order-pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging...
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America...
Doors don’t always lead where you...