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I live in the center of Paris, a hundred yards from the Seine. Every day I walk along it, or cross one of the bridges that...

There are writers for whom the dead refuse to stay buried, and it may be that some ghosts are especially insistent with authors from countries where,...

When you called, I would come running, all my tags jingling. You’d grab a hank of my hair, and that would block out every thought. Our...

The appearance of a new English translation of Ernst Cassirer’s The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms marks the culmination of an unlikely intellectual revival. Cassirer’s three-volume magnum...

The phrase “surprise best seller”—often applied to more or less any book that achieves some commercial success despite not being by John Grisham, Nicholas Sparks, or...

On July 1, 2020, Nadeen Ashraf, a twenty-two-year-old student at the American University of Cairo, noticed that a 2018 post by a fellow student to an...

For WBEZ Chicago, Sandra Cisneros discusses winning the Fuller Award, an honor given to the city’s greatest living writers. Her most celebrated novel, The House on...

The ellipsis is an important punctuation mark. Sure, those three dots seem so tiny, so straightforward, and yet … Some editors may view the ellipsis as...

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Without want, there is no personhood. Whether the flush thrill of sex, or the gratification of a good meal (or both, and then some!), our desires...