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April 19, 2013

The Little Prince at Seventy

By Amy Benfer

Can a symbol of innocence grow up with its readers?

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December 23, 2011

End Times

By Adam Kirsch

Cruelty and consolation in the last days of the Roman Empire.

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October 21, 2011

Tacitus and Tiberius

Essay by Adam Kirsch

Ancient wisdom regarding corrupt rulers and Roman virtue.

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September 7, 2011

The Other Socrates

By Adam Kirsch

The founder of philosophy is usually seen through Plato's eyes. But Socrates had other interpreters, too.

Daybook

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

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In the Margin

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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In this searing African crime novel, former Maasai warrior Detective Mollel must defy a corrupt Nairobi government to solve the case of a murdered tribe woman.

The Wonder Bread Summer

This Tarantino-esque thriller finds shop girl Allie and a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine on the run from a vindictive hit man - after she discovers her dress shop is a front for a narcotics ring.