The White Album” by Joan Didion “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” I have been praying at the altar of Joan Didion ...

Helen, what was your most memorable Christmas ever?” I asked my 86-year-old mother-in-law. Without hesitation, she replied, “When we lived in the chicken coop.” When Helen was 5 or 6 years old, ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

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If you don’t want to sound academic, don’t subtitle an essay ‘On the Dialectics of Eschatology in Stifter and Handke’ A sense of Heimat, or homeland, is also key — and indisputably ...

In a dark coincidence, the researchers point to California's current catastrophe as a timely example of their recently published findings. "In that publication, fairly incredibly, we use the example ...