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On Thomas Merton, by Mary Gordon. Shambhala. 160 pages. $22.95. The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton’s account of his conversion to Catholicism in 1938 and his subsequent entry into a Trappist ...

The best part of those days—assuming it wasn’t raining, snowing, or too cold—was the nine-block walk to Central Park after breakfast. Although he carried a cell phone and used an electronic tablet ...

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Wallace’s work first appeared in the September 1989 issue of the magazine with the story “Everything Is Green,” from Girl with Curious Hair (1989). Five other short stories of his were published in ...

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The movie Blow-Up was released in 1966, and like any movie, it’s partly about the time when it was made, about the attitudes and assumptions that existed then, and were normal then, and now it’s like ...

The night before the storm she had seen a debate on television. The argument had become fierce, enraged, until eventually a young woman, perhaps in her late twenties, her voice low, calmer now, ...