Love, Actually
How girls reluctantly endure the hookup culture
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On the remote west coast of Ireland, Doolin—the epicenter of traditional Irish music—sings the economic blues away.
A new book argues that play may be the primary means nature has found to develop our brains.
The books that shaped HBO’s The Pacific give the lie to the notion of generational exceptionalism.
Holden Caulfield lives on as Greg Heffley, narrator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the anti–Harry Potter.
Howell was never caught. He lent a certain grace to his grift, even value to whatever he grabbed. The widows never felt cheated.
Paiko had been waiting for his girlfriend to have sex with her last client when the police raided the brothel. Now he was before the kangaroo court in Area F, which had the worst torture chamber in the country.
I’d become obsessed with my Neighborhood Watch duties, and my wife had taken up with Bob Martin. But that wasn’t what bothered me.
The place where we are joined is a secret place for Hattie and me—a bone hinge covered in smooth skin. But lately, Hattie hates our hinge. She has fallen in love.
The nature of this retreat was silence, silence rejuvenant, unbroken, utter. Three years, three months, and three days of it in their search for enlightenment.
He had become used to the way Marc turned questions around. His son was like Superman in that way, catching bullets in his hand and redirecting them. His own father had never answered his questions. He was not sure which was worse, to be mocked or to be ignored.
The man next to my father at the bar winked shyly at me. I had seen this man before. His name was Russell. He wasn’t a member of our club, but he and my father were friendly. He was a former Army officer, and he restored classic cars. “He’s unstoppable,” my father often said. “That man’s unstoppable.”
On monks, technology, attention spans’and the continued necessity of just leaving home
In 2008, the author lost her husband of 48 years. In her early days of widowhood, she found that teaching— an act of communication, of sympathy, a reaching-out—was a way of allowing others into the solitude of one’s soul.
A guide to spring and summer releases
James Agee’s Depression classic still stings the family of its subjects.
A grand history and an elegiac new film explore Britain’s recent, and irrecoverable, past.
Bill Simmons has set a new and unbeatable standard by writing like a fan—just far better.
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