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...with a formidable intellect and an equally formidable anxiety. This anxiety first takes hold when his father transforms from a nurturing role model and friend into a fear-ridden monster. Fight after fight leads Marcus to relocate to the town of Winesburg, Ohio, and a college of the same name, in 1951. And here the anxieties only compound: Marcus buries himself in work, falls in love, fights with both his roommates and the college’s faculty, and in so doing pushes himself into isolation. By the end of this brief, cruel novel, Marcus is more Roth?...
Regardless of the wording of the proposal, though, it seems very unlikely that UNESCO will name French cuisine the first world gastronomic treasure. Given its history of turning down culinary proposals (Mexico’s similar request three years ago was shot down before it even reached committee) and Khaznadar’s reluctance, UNESCO is unlikely to reverse course...
...Arts story, "Self-Aware Chinese Art Begins to Break Down Walls," misspelled the name of a road in China. It is spelled "Moganshan." This article has been updated to correct the original error...
...history, Robinson discovered that the Factory was plagued with a “sense of fighting and jockeying for position and status.” Interviews with Williams’s fellow Factory fixtures—John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Brigid Berlin, Paul Morrissey, Billy Name, and others—show the bitterness, gossip, and jealousy that characterized the inner workings of Williams’s world. Yet these interviews of elderly, solitary, forgetful “new-agers”—juxtaposed with the ephemeral, joyous images of them from Williams?...
...Italian said.“Gnocchi? Ehh...absolutamente!” Ollie said, impressed at the station master’s turn of phrase.Ollie was dressed in a satin waistcoat and a hat that he believed marked him at once as a member of the Italian aristocracy. His assumed name? Prince Filippo Fumagalli. At The Stable Boy’s orders, Ollie had been following Felicity for days. Now, having cornered her at the fairground’s model train ride, he felt ready to approach her.Before Ollie could do so, however, a man dashed up to the platform...