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Romney and Gingrich.

The Ties That Blind US

In this modern world of supposed transparency in all things, it’s sometimes hard to see the correlation between seemingly random events. Butterfly wings in Africa and all that. Read More

Bowles’ Detached Life, Lonely, Artistic, but Satisfied

Paul Bowles, A Life , by Virginia Spencer Carr. Scribner, 409 pages, $35.

There are two reasons why people should care about Paul Bowles, the writer and composer who died five years ago in Morocco. He wrote The Sheltering Sky , a masterpiece of alienation that tracks a threesome headed into the North Read More