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An excerpt from Randy Boyagoda’s forthcoming novel, ‘Dante’s Indiana’

Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel paints a complicated portrait of a narrator burdened by regrets and lost opportunities.

Reading important texts in the original language is rarely a staid endeavor, but rather an unsettling intellectual challenge.

For the novelist Walker Percy, acedia was not just an arcane spiritual malady but a widespread, distinctly modern phenomenon.

Documenting the art and culture produced during the first decades of the Cold War