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… philosopher, the Virgil who can make any hell or limbo become a world suggesting and even giving birth to stories … him to see and know and even will everything that happens, also to know what the good and bad of it is without … he knows how the psyche suffers at the consequent tragedies and waste of spirit. But he also knows that spirit can …

… Pain R. Wesley / Getty Images  My father was never one to complain. On the morning of the day he died, an ulcer he’d suffered from for years, and left … In the same awful week, my father’s own mother also died, of old age. These two deaths hardly seemed to …

… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … is a room built entirely of knives all edges facing in all points afire and also somehow held to the vessel in my world sirens are the …

… (Sharma was eventually located and deposed on October 26.) Jason has not only managed to sort out all of these … He covers seven significant locations from dozens of points of view and details the events hour-by-hour for those … piece of writing in hopes that there is still an audience for something deeper than soundbites, more careful …

… history over the past two decades, one yearns for studies with a longer or broader sweep. The profession finally … own Voyagers to the West (1986), in which, among other accomplishments, these eminent historians synthesize great … social preeminence. As Wood does provocatively at different points in his story, he here invokes the example of …