MARY OF ARABIA

I recently read An Age Like This , a compilation of Orwell's essays and letters from 1920 to 1940. I sat down to share some quotati...

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. I had never read anything by John Updike, s...

In 2008 I rode a train to eastern Turkey in a backward-facing seat. I had read somewhere about a people in history thinking of time thi...