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… and intricately patterned abaca cloth on a museum website. Abaca fibers come from Musa textilis , a plant primarily cultivated in … a ship. I run my fingers along one of them, feeling its spirals and striations. Inside of me, something leaps. I give …

… American Family’s Curious Bond With Russia It may sound incomprehensible— senseless , Constance Garnett would have put … or on the history of the Soviet Union. And though I studied Russian in college, just so I would know what my … beef, and dill, which my mother, stylish in strappy sandals and a silk wrap dress after a day at the office, would …

… or that it does not have its roots in the revolt against medieval authority. A movement so triumphant as that which has … century, the period of its triumph. Actually, there was comparatively little challenge of the progressivist movement … one cannot accept those views, one can only try to show the points at which belief balks. It is not a question of what …

… whether one is thinking of Alexander Portnoy in Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) or David Kepesh in The Dying Animal (2001) … earlier generation of Jewish-American writers and intellectuals, the ones who collected around the water cooler at … Counter-Life (1986), a novel in which certain characters die in one chapter only to be reborn in the next. Indeed, …

… affirmation today: monographs are usually written for an audience of half a dozen specialists in the same field and to … and why the Athenians and Spartans came to blows. They have come away from the work, as they have from that of his … an Athens which cleaved less to reality than to certain ideals. According to the French historian of antiquity, Nicole …