So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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If you think the American middle class has it bad, consider life in debt-ridden Italy or Greece. Best-selling financial writer Michael Lewis portrays the downfall of several European countries with his usual verve, in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World.
Chang's new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest.
According to John Leland, the hipster is an outsider who crosses boundaries and challenges the mainstream. He also talks about the overlap between being hip and using drugs.
Millard Kaufman has a long string of successes, including two Oscar nominations as a screen writer. He tells Jim Fleming why he decided to take on a new kind of writing.
Acclaimed novelist Martin Amis talks about growing up as the son of another famous novelist — Kingsley Amis.
For millennia the Hazara people have been telling folk tales. Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have collected them in a book called “The Honey Thief.”
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