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L’amour filial

by Charlotte Brontë,Translated by Sue Lonoff de Cuevas,

By Charlotte Brontë, from an essay written while she was a twenty-six-year-old student at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. The essay, dated August 5, 1842, was discovered last year in…

Bartók’s Monster

by Jay Kirk,

Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania

Other Types of Poison

by Rebecca Makkai,

Three legends

Photograph With Shirley

by Julie Hecht,

The author writes about the inspiration for “May I Touch Your Hair?”

Newsroom of One’s Own

by Virginia Woolf,

From The Charleston Bulletin Supplements, dictated by Virginia Woolf to her nephew Quentin Bell when he was a child. Between 1923 and 1927, Bell and his brother Julian hand-produced a…

The Shining Path

by Jay Kirk,

Room 237 and the Kubrick cult

Fei Fei

by Liao Yiwu,Translated by Wenguang Huang,

By Liao Yiwu, from For a Song and a Hundred Songs, out next month from New Harvest. Liao, who was born in China in 1958, spent four years in prison…

Collateral Damage

From more than 8,000 letters to executives and directors of banks, posted last fall on the website Occupy the Boardroom and emailed to the addressees. A selection of 150 letters,…

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by Peter Turnley,

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by Peter Turnley,

She still belonged to him

by Harper’s Staff,

Family

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L’amour filial

Bartók’s Monster

Other Types of Poison

Photograph With Shirley

Newsroom of One’s Own

The Shining Path

Fei Fei

Collateral Damage

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She still belonged to him

September 2007

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