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

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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 ...

My problems started much earlier than the night before deadline—they started in my childhood, when I completely failed to learn Russian, and though an inability to function in a writer’s original ...

Before I read Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1953 Howard Hawks film had already influenced my existence as a young girl in the form of a Marilyn Monroe VHS box set. It wasn’t the glitz and ...

Marguerite Duras’s Le navire Night (The ship named Night) is both a film and a would-be film, or rather a documentary of a film that the writer decided never to finish. Duras abandoned her initial ...

I had the book alright and beg your forgiveness for not thanking and congratulating you too before. But for three months I’ve been going around with your letter in my pocket (that nice racy one about ...

Marguerite Duras on her mother, a woman whose lived contradictions rivaled those of the greatest characters in literature.