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by | Apr 12, 2022

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. –John…

by | Mar 29, 2022

The year was 1999. My Norwegian partner and I were living in Amsterdam. One morning I saw in the newspaper…

by | Mar 18, 2022

The United States and the broader community of NATO allies have responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine…

by | Mar 2, 2022

Two antiquarian books lie before me. The first is a copy of George Wharton Edwards’ Vanished Halls & Cathedrals of…

by | Jan 23, 2022

Creative Types and Other Stories Tom Bissell Pantheon, 224 pages, $24 The Hack, one of seven short stories in journalist…

by | Nov 19, 2021

BRIMFIELD, Mass. — “We are living in a throwaway culture,” Pope Francis observed this summer. “What is useless is discarded.” …

by | Nov 15, 2021

Promenades By Nicolas Sarkozy (Herscher, 304 pages, $33) Published on September 22. Only available in French. Former French President Nicolas…

by | Oct 2, 2021

Many people are enchanted by a simple theory: creating art that expresses hidden feelings alongside an art therapist can be…

by | Aug 17, 2021

Increasing charges of systemic racism have been levied against the classical music tradition since the death of George Floyd, and…

by | Aug 1, 2021

The other day I ran across the 1998 movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels while flipping channels and watched it for the first time…

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