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People Will Always Be Kind

Like everyone else on the planet, it took me no time at all to read and form an opinion about Angelina Jolie’s recent New York Times op-ed about her ...

May 21, 2013 05:39 PM

Booked

This is the Library Hotel, in Koh Samui, Thailand. We appreciate the image’s caption: “Real happiness is not complicated at all.” Indeed, we would go so ...

May 21, 2013 03:00 PM

Wanted: Literary Mentor

I’m in the market for a mentor. My qualifications? I’m educated. Some (prospective employers, Stafford Loan sharks, OKCupid algorithms) would say too ...

May 21, 2013 01:48 PM | 2 comments

Have You Ever Heard Virginia Woolf Speak?

What follows is the only known surviving recording of Virginia Woolf, part of a BBC radio broadcast from 1937. The talk is titled “Craftsmanship.”

May 21, 2013 10:57 AM | 3 comments

Nobel Tweets, and Other News

From The Hairpin, “Etymological Origins of Words Related to Insults.” (And we really like that nice is on there.) A little reading-room escapism to ...

May 21, 2013 09:30 AM

POSTERITY IS STUPID

To Eugenio Scalfari—Rome March 7, 1942 I accepted the praise you gave me at the start of your letter with barely restrained grunts of satisfaction. ...

May 20, 2013 03:41 PM