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Emotional Blackmail: An Affair of Every Heart
Vogue· 12 hours agoIn some stories Sandra was blackmailed by a shadowy Syndicate, in others by her estranged husband (“Mark,” a déclassé Fed); in still others, dating from...
460 Years Ago, Shakespeare Was Born Here. Or Somewhere.
New York Times· 6 days agoEvery year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as...
How Dan Stevens Became Hollywood’s Go-To Guy for, Well, Anything
Variety via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIt’s been less than 12 years since Dan Stevens raised a middle finger to the British aristocracy...
Chiles: April 26-May 2
Santa Fe New Mexican· 3 days agoThe film is a loose time-and-space-jumping adaptation of Henry James’ 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle, in which a man refuses love out of a belief...
Mastering the Art of Making a Cookbook
The New Yorker· 4 days agoThe collections of letters between author and editor which appear now and then offer dubious or anyway equivocal conclusions: Scott Fitzgerald felt that...
The Scariest Movie Released the Year You Were Born
Cheapism via AOL· 2 days agoAmazon 1961: 'The Innocents' Based on "The Turn of the Screw" byHenry James, "The Innocents" is a good, old-fashioned British ghost story — and one that...
Jane Campion to Receive Locarno Film Festival Honor
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJane Campion will be honored this year by the Locarno Film Festival, which will present the New Zealand director its Pardo d’Onore Manor Award for...
Data, Desire, and Where Fiction Goes Next
The Nation· 5 days agoJessi Jezewska Stevens’s fiction wryly examines the vagaries of living in an age of downward mobility and phone-based anomie—with its indignities, its...
Kindness Quotes to Inspire Positivity and Connection
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 days agoEric Hoffer: "Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind." Henry James: “Three things in human life are important. The first is ...
The Reading and Writing of Short Stories
The Atlantic· 3 days agoTHE plot of a short story in many instances is quite openly a projection of character. In a highly specialized instance, but a good example, the whole series of ghostly events in The Turn of ...
