Word: daringness
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This is a daring book. McDermott lets the major events happen offstage. She occasionally flashes forward to dispatch a character to his grave in a sentence or two. Not all her bets pay off, but by the end of this strangely haunting novel, you're convinced that what she knows...
So you just got into Harvard, you’re not sure what the hell you plan to do here, much less in life, and you’ve just been given a 10-pound Courses of Instruction to sift through. What the hell do you do? Well, the mature...
RECOVERED. The Scream (pictured) and Madonna, two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004; in Oslo. Three men were given jail sentences in May for their roles in the daring daytime theft, but two others involved are still at large. Police have...
What he knew then, what we all know now, is that 1,600 miles away in Colorado he had a considerable ace up his sleeve. Six years ago, he had won a competition to design the addition to Denver's principal art museum, which its director, Lewis Sharp, was pushing...
Our Summer Journey double issue tracing Marco Polo's epic trail followed an intellectual path, exploring the ways in which East and West now meet each other. In response, readers shared tales of travel, thoughts on ideas that changed the world and meditations about noodles Paul Smethurst's essay "A...