It can be awkward to receive gifts. Especially if they’re gifts you don’t really want. The same goes for help.
Haddayr Copley- Woods has been grappling with how to handle unwanted help since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Denby of The New Yorker tells Steve Paulson that Pauline Kael was the most remarkable person he’s ever known.
Poet Edward Hirsch bookmarks Alice Oswald's "Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad."
Do nations need states? Do ethnic, religious, and/or linguistic groups of people – do they, in this age of globalization, do they need to form a country with borders and an army and all that comes along with that? Do they need to be a state?
Literary theorist Terry Eagleton's Dangerous Idea? The humanities are dying.
E. Fuller Torrey is a research psychiatrist who believes there has been a five fold increase in the incidence of insanity in the last 250 years, and that some infectious agent is to blame.
What’s it like to grow up with a great naturalist? Well, it made quite an impression on the children of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold.
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