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There’s everything from local history and geography books such as the 1979 first edition of John Feehan’s The Landscape of ...
Among the many dramatic episodes in the brief life of the poet Nakahara Chūya, the most infamous involves a love triangle between the poet, an aspiring actress called Hasegawa Yasuko, and the critic ...
A movie about the life of Wuthering Heights author Emily Bronte is now on Netflix (Picture: Michael Wharley) A ‘beautifully ...
Essays by a writer of literary lives meditate on the obsessions and obstacles endemic to her trade.
I have picked five books from different sports as must-reads. At home, Sunil Gavaskar’s Sunny Days remains an all-time best.
Thomas Hardy’s marriage to Emma Gifford went from romantic to estranged, and yet he was grief-stricken when she died.
For Harman, translation is not merely a mechanical process of matching words, but an effort to breathe life into the ...
Throughout, Ms. Marshall stages scenes simmering with subtle erotic energy—the moment, for example ... poetry class at Harvard. “After Lives” continues this blend of autobiography and biography.
At the turn of the century, the expatriate novelist visited the U.S. for the first time in decades. He left feeling more ...
The Princeton professor and author of such titles as ‘The Gnostic Gospels’ and ‘Beyond Belief’ and more spent seven years on ...
However, it was critically acclaimed and currently holds an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with its critics consensus reading ...
Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...