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Ah, to go back to the mornings of innocence, and to the afternoons of transgression: Case Studies 1. I am eleven and convinced sex is everything I have read in the forbidden Havelock Ellis on...

The neighborhood I live in in Athens is called Neos Kosmos, the “New World,” a largely working-class neighborhood (though gentrifying as it is convenient to the center), with a fairly...

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Ange asks: "Could it be that there is a profound cultural connection between the poet and the detective?" The answer is... Yes! Francis M. Nevins wrote on the topic for us...

You may have seen the news items here and there about Anne Stevenson’s having just received the Poetry Foundation’s “Neglected Masters” award, which honors a significant but under-recognized American poet....

I like Mondays because Monday is when the farmer’s market (the laïki agora), comes to our neighborhood, on the street just around the corner. There are plenty of drawbacks...

There’s a scene in Val Lewton’s The Seventh Victim where one of the characters (who eats every night at the same Village restaurant, The Dante) is a poet on...

Because Ange nearly demanded it, I offer a list of unjustified and in some cases apparently unmotivated likes and dislikes, compiled, in part, while sitting in Greater Boston Area traffic....

’Fess up. You bought a copy. I did this year, anyway. I actually buy the essay and short story anthologies in the Scribner Best of series year after year without fail...

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