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… barely in the shared world, barely aware of his father’s comfort. Morning sweetness. Still, often, those, first … so obsessed with a woman they go to restaurants on the offchance she’ll be there. They haunt the neighborhood. But … The list of jobs that needed to be done at the farm . Jonas died on a sunny day on a hilltop reading The New York Times …

… it was for theology, history, and the law. But when Shapiro comes to discuss probability in literature, she merely points to the plausible fictions of Defoe as an example. How … century. The change from “classic to romantic” has been studied before through analyses of historical forces, new …

… as the son of a New York farm couple, he rose to become Wall Street’s speculator par excellence and to preside … vast transportation and communications empires. When he died in 1892, he left an estate valued at $72 million. Yet … also attracted Gould’s attention. At various points in his career, he owned a steamship line, telegraph …

… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … these selections as we do.    Click  here for access to the complete project archive    1.  Photographs of children and … war, or the kind of violence that drives mass migration, to come to terms with a harsh truth: after more than a hundred …

… retiring editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, died Monday of injuries sustained in an automobile collision … 1964. While working there, he met Holton, who went on to become Virginia’s first Republican governor in living memory. … the first to publish the work of novelist T.R. Pearson. He also published a “lost” story of William Faulkner, who had …