Culture

The slowest poisons

“The first glass is at half past nine. I lasted until eleven twenty-two this morning,” notes John Cheever, in one of the most visual passages…
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time watchers

Per Petterson is one of the very few active novelists to have a personal and successful literary project. A writer, to understand each other,…
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weird couple

No, they’re not Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau this time around, but if you ask, they may have acted in an unusual movie directed by Billy…
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Nora’s comedy

Like the others, I met Nora Ephron, not knowing that she was the girl to whom she belonged as the author of the simulated orgasm scene in the…
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