I wonder if a week without sugar will rearouse my desire. Maybe if I interrupt my intake, I’ll like my job again. Like quitting one form of nicotine to replace it with another.

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The problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that ...

Rose Hobart presages Bruce Conner’s A MOVIE (1958) by more than twenty years. Made of found footage that Conner took from ...

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To reappraise women’s incomplete works can be to resist the exclusionary gestures—the refusals, rejections, and ...

Over a morning cappuccino in a small but lively European café that spilled onto the central square of a town near the sea, I first read “The Country Husband,” my introduction to John Cheever, on a ...

“I am once again looking for a special woman to share my life with,” begins L-231; she follows with a list of desired qualities (incurably romantic, strong Christian values) and undesired ones (drug ...

My water journey began on the airplane, when I recognized a bottle of Elisabethen Quelle. I remembered this brand from my time at the Doemens water sommelier school in Gräfelfing. It’s a mainstream ...

This year, we asked our contributors, our readers, our current and former interns, and other friends of the Review for their favorite books of the past year. Here’s what they said. Service by John ...

I’ve always made love and always written as if I were going to die afterward.

Just as the sun begins to peek over the flat horizon of Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1,383 pigeons fill the sky. The birds pour out as a single winged mass from the rows of flung-open coops on the transport ...