In “Sons and Lovers,” there are bedside scenes that very much resemble our last days with my mother
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Jane Austen, Fountain of Youth
89-year-old Ruth Wilson finds that rereading Jane Austen keeps her feeling young.
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Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships
Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.
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Can We Imagine Another’s Pain?
In Friday’s post I mentioned how we read and discussed the first few pages of Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World in our most recent salon, held to support colleague Alan Paskow as he battles with cancer. Scarry claims that language is inadequate when it comes to physical pain so […]
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