Sometimes we just need to take a deep breath and relax – but it's not always that easy. Strangely …
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“A hunter knows when to quiet his mind”: Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova, and a defence of solitude
I wrote in my last article about the classical scholar Edith Hamilton, who wrote of Aeschylus: …
Allen Ginsberg on never working again (and living a “literary and quiet city-hermit existence” instead)
Carl Solomon, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Gotham Book Mart …
Levin on The Joy of Retreating into Nature (Reasons to Read Anna Karenina, Part II)
I wrote last month about "literary retreats", or novels about retreating into relaxing and …
Retreating into a Book for Bibliotherapy: 8 of the Best Retreats in Fiction
I'm convinced that when we read about characters retreating into settings that allow them to …
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Family Life and Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
I wanted you to have an extraordinary life.- Rosemary's mother, We Are All Completely Beside …
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