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Funeral charges have risen for the same reason that prices have always risen: a disconnect between demand and supply. For a combination of reasons—cost, changing mores,...

Andrea del Verrocchio’s statues may lack the silken sheen of Benvenuto Cellini’s metalwork and the epic grandeur of Michelangelo’s marbles, the works that shaped artistic taste...

Gender is a global concern, touching every shore, at every moment. At the start of the Atlantics, Ada is not exactly recalcitrant, though she’s on her...

Far-reaching though the effects of this moment in the Brexit story will be, the 2019 general election may change the landscape of British politics and the...

Since Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government decided in 2015 to temporarily open its border to asylum-seekers and admit close to one million people at the height of...

When we say the world is haunted we mean untranslated                                ...

This year, through no initiative or orchestration of my own, I read in twos. I realize this only now, picking out from a hasty reading ledger...

What a time to be alive. So many wonderful books came out this year and when I think about the current state of literature in America,...

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Last year was the year of finishing my novel. I didn’t read as much as usual and what I read, I read with bleary eyes. But...