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A Life Awry
Lifestyle A Life Awry
Investigating Mortality
Lifestyle Investigating Mortality
Famed for his explorations of life at the extremes, Sebastian Junger turns his j...
At the start, Collins defines and underscores the importance of finding a person’s deep passion. He refers to this individual passion as a personal hedgehog, a line of work one is enthusiastic about and genetically suited to achieve.
Lifestyle Find Your Hedgehog
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Michael Cunningham
Lifestyle Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not Michael Cunningham
Time is an interconnecting and unpredictable thread among lives in the classic Mrs. Dalloway and its spiritual descendant, The Hours.
Love, Grief, and Quiet Determination
Lifestyle Love, Grief, and Quiet Determination
How a Mississippi couple forged a life together and changed the course of American history.
Ensuring the End of the British Slave Trade
Lifestyle Ensuring the End of the British Slave Trade
The story of how abolitionists and a nascent insurance industry find common cause.
The Burdens of Desire
Lifestyle The Burdens of Desire
In Whale Fall, the trappings of modernity intrude on a quiet Welsh island, with dubious results.