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… A Prince of Climbers Before he was 40 he had become one of the greatest modern mountaineers, and perhaps the greatest overall explorer of his time. When he died in an African village, The New York Times recalled that … His first plan was to go to the Himalayas and climb the 26,660-foot peak of Nanga Parbat, as a tribute to his friend …

… camps. Among those who “disappear” are intellectuals, Red Army leaders and former revolutionaries. Over the … as Osip Mandelstam and Vladimir Nabokov, but his later studies at Petersburg University were interrupted, apparently … in English for the first time by Bush, a Welsh poet, comes from 15 finished poems and a handful of unfinished …

Autumn In New England It would be difficult to say when it started—the light filling the cracks and nothing else— as if we were hunters, not hunted. When asked we can only answer Yes, there’s a cure but no disease. And Yes, there’s something that lifts us …

… Inside Higher Ed reports that Thailand, upset over a forthcoming critical biography of President Bhumibol Adulyadej, … blocked access in the country to Yale University Press’s website: In Thailand, the assistant minister of information … book, The King Never Smiles , is described on the press’s website as the story of “how a king widely seen as …

… Irwin was when we first began having our conversations, coming on thirty years ago. Fresh out of college, a classic, … Hills, part of the relentless suburban sprawl north of San Diego, one two-story Cape Cod pressed against the next, … Producing a sort of Necker cube illusion. “Exactly, but also giving the piece a whole further dimensionality. And it …