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Three years after Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock was casting about for more suitably disturbing entertainment. He hit on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, then threw it away, essentially keeping only the title ...
Jonathan Franzen is for the birds. Every other entry in his new essay collection, “The End of the End of the Earth,” focuses on the ornithological world and the threats posed to it by humankind. That ...
In his 2008 essay “The Chinese Puffin,” reprinted in his second essay collection, Farther Away (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pages, $26.00), Jonathan Franzen contemplates the apparently limitless ...
So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...
Not far from Disney World, on a stretch of sprawling grasslands called the Florida Prairie, researchers are gradually rebuilding the population of a tiny, skittish sparrow that’s the most endangered ...
“At the bridge over the big river at the eel weir the poet’s country begins”: The Elk and the Ponderosa, an essay in Benedict Kiely’s collection All the Way to Bantry Bay (1978), opens at Toomebridge.
Hey it’s Friday, and usually Fridays are when people send out the “more fun” press releases. Like the one we just got from Commonwealth Toys about the preorder launch of Angry Birds plush toys at ...
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