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Literary Dinners; Crumbling Apartments
I’ve been dreaming of hosting a cozy winter dinner party based on a famous meal from literature. What famous feasts are the most completely described? I’d like to be able to re-create the menu, the...
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Five in the Colonies: Enid Blyton’s Sri Lankan Adventures
Most mornings this past winter—the Boyagoda household already running late—I discovered my oldest daughter reading at the kitchen table: one boot on, gloves, hat, knapsack, and other boot nowhere to...
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The Vatican is Not a Fan of J.K. Rowling’s Adult Oeuvre, and Other News
The Vatican pans J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. Or at any rate, the Holy See’s official paper does. “I read Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet, every day.” Mary Oliver on her inspirations....
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America in Love, and Other News
Amazon.com has assigned a love story to every state. As a New Yorker, I find myself ambivalent about the choice of The Age of Innocence. Although Arkansas, arguably, has more of a bone to pick. “Wife...
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The British Pathé newsreel series Personality is fascinating. Each consists of clips of the “home life” of a British celebrity of the 1940s or 1950s: artists, actors, musicians. We see them romping...
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