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They felt excluded by "millennial moral censorship" — but is their work pushing boundaries, or just pushing buttons?
The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger ...
When we learn that “happiness can’t be taken by the world because it wasn’t given by the world,” we can laugh at the vanities ...
‘One of life’s simplest pleasures is falling into a story and tuning the world out. But to get there, you have to stop worrying about what someone’s going to think of you.’Composite: The ...
For Wallace, Sampras, with his no-nonsense focus on discipline, clarity, power and physicality (athleticism) represented Spartan virtues. Agassi, colorful, philosophical, impulsive and iconoclastic, ...
David Foster Wallace delivered one of the most widely shared and admired graduation speeches of all time. It still rewards ...
To better understand what it takes to succeed on Centre Court, pick up one of these books about a few of the greatest players ...
Jeffery Deaver answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him ...
Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.
On Tuesday, July 1, from 5:30-6:30 p.m., the Southwest Harbor Public Library will host “Banning Books in America: Not a ...
In this short essay, Walter Metz uses a graduation speech by David Foster Wallace to analyze the water imagery in the new Gus Van Sant film, Promised Land.
Brian David Randall's remarkable first novel, Demaris: Protocol, hits bookstores this week. Based on events drawn from his own life, the thriller is set The novelists first book is a thriller ...