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The Foul Reign of Emerson’s ‘Self-Reliance’

My first exposure to the high-flown pap of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” came in a basement classroom at the private boys’ school where I enrolled to learn the…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 2, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (680 words)
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Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?

Michael, a 9-year-old whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment, with his mother, Anne. One day last summer, Anne and her husband, Miguel, took their 9-year-old son, Michael,…
PUBLISHED: May 11, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (700 words)
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Invitation to a Beheading

As a novelist, Mantel has the maddeningly unteachable gift of being interesting.
AUTHOR:James Wood
PUBLISHED: May 7, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (999 words)
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Hand on the Shoulder

My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with “plume”), and forty years ago, in my final year at Cambridge, I was recruited by the British security service. In the early spring of 1972, when…
AUTHOR:Ian McEwan
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7691 words)
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How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . .

A scene from “Bernie,” with Shirley MacLaine as Marge, and Jack Black as Bernie. “Bernie,” the new film from
AUTHOR:Joe Rhodes
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (879 words)
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5296 words)
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The Disconnect

As reliably as autumn brings Orion to the night sky, spring each year sends a curious constellation to the multiplex: a minor cluster of romantic comedies and the couples who traipse through them,…
PUBLISHED: April 16, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1008 words)
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The Aquarium

ABSTRACT: PERSONAL HISTORY about the diagnosis and treatment of the author s nine-month-old daughter s brain tumor.
PUBLISHED: June 13, 2011
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The Second Shelf

If “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides, had been written by a woman yet still had the same title and wedding ring on its cover, would it have received a great deal of serious…
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (641 words)
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