August 19, 2025 – "Suddenly I thought I should probably ride a bull. Or, more accurately, I suddenly found that I was going ...

August 18, 2025 – "I see myself as a person who wants always to be seized, wants a seat by the footlights. Apparently not." ...

Just like In Search of Lost Time, the narrative trajectory of Drake’s albums shows us an arriviste filled with hope and ...

This repetitive self-mutilating behavior is referred to as stereotypic behavior, repetitive gestures exhibited by humans and ...

August 6, 2025 – "Greene's work keeps one’s mind on tiptoe. Illusions beget disillusions but also hopes; hopes beget ...

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August 23, 2013 – Of teaching Ulysses, Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, ...

January 25, 2013 – “I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.” —Leo Tolstoy, January 25, 1851 ...

Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of The Crucible. In this interview, Arthur Miller discusses the writing of the play, and the McCarthy hearings that inspired it.

Lois Dodd’s early paintings (1958–66) are showing at Alexandre Gallery through March 18. Dodd, who is eighty-nine, helped to found New York’s artist-run Tanager Gallery in the fifties, when it was one ...

In the Laurie Colwin novel Family Happiness, a mother and daughter get on the telephone to discuss the menu for an upcoming family dinner—either a roast leg of lamb or roast beef, with potatoes and, ...

We came in two cars. A white Honda Odyssey, the back row of seats kowtowed under great reams of toilet paper. Everything else—cartons of grapes, jugs of water, Tupperwares of cut fruit, all of our ...