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How to convey the horror of war to someone who’s never witnessed it? It’s language, not the pain of remembering, that makes the task so hard.
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Two decades after his masterpiece, the author reflects on war, fatherhood, and the passage of time that’s made him feel like "a stranger to the person who wrote that book."
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Writing never gets easier, but there are certain mistakes writers can learn to avoid.
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A conversation with the National Book Award-winning writer.
We should arrest the Pope "only if that is where the operation of due process and the rule of law actually take the investigating and prosecuting authorities," writes Allen Green.
Gordon Chang writes that this will likely not be the "Chinese century." Rather, the country has "just about reached high tide, and will soon begin a long, painful process of falling back."
Using instruments in space and on the ground, Scientists have developed the most complete picture yet of how large solar eruptions affect the Earth.
If Christopher Hitchens were to spend "a long and arduous evening in the alehouses and outer purlieus" of 19th Century London, he'd want to be doing it in the company of Charles Dickens.
Faced with plummeting endowments and overextended commitments, public universities are moving toward privatization, writes Edward J. K. Gitre, who worries about the long-term consequences.
Saffa Khan is on four college wait lists, and writes that these lists "prolong the holding pattern of teenage life." Instead, colleges should simply reject those without a reasonable chance of getting in.
Former CIA director James Woolsey says America can end its oil addiction (and its reliance on OPEC) by using more electricity, natural gas and biofuels for transportation.
Citing numerous clues, experts believe that a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that was long attributed to the circle of Francesco Granacci is really by Michelangelo.
John Dickerson writes that Sarah Palin has become more a celebrity than a politician. Like Al Gore, she is "a personality–influential, polarizing, and not likely to be president–who talks about political affairs."
Elif Batuman unearths seven unproduced screenplays written by famous intellectuals, including Nabokov's story of a sexually frustrated London circus dwarf, and Sartre's failed Freud epic.
It has been a bad ten years for the economy. It may in fact have been the worst decade since the 1930s. As I've written, the current recession is in […]
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Siri Hustvedt recommends an "extraordinary, unusual little book."
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The novelist on having a fellow author (Paul Auster) as a spouse, and the state of mind that’s essential to good writing.
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The "crossing of senses," in perception and memory, was once considered too strange to study. Now scientists suspect it’s universal, at least in infancy.
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Studying a humiliating memory from her own childhood convinced the author that we "place" what we remember, and vice versa.
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The author once had a weird, wonderful vision induced by a migraine, but believes other hallucinations are common variations of pathologies.