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In the world beyond Hollywood, the incident was met with various questions: "Why did he do it?" "Why not?" "Hugh Grant is heterosexual?" and "Who's Hugh Grant?" If the story had any sizzle, it was because of the endearing persona the actor created in his one hit movie, Four...
However, despite our every instinct to the contrary, there is one thing that consciousness is not: some entity deep inside the brain that corresponds to the "self," some kernel of awareness that runs the show, as the "man behind the curtain" manipulated the illusion of a powerful magician in The...
As it became clear that the prospect of liberation was an illusion, residents of Sarajevo found their optimism choked off. Hope, like everything else inside the city, now needs to be rationed carefully; overindulging only makes the want of it more keen. Last Wednesday afternoon about 50 people were on...
Yet power gardening makes sense in an age of downward mobility, when a middle class eager to stem a free fall will grasp at affordable luxuries. They can't afford 500 acres in Shropshire, or even a house as big as their parents', but there is some solace in growing...
It is aesthetically naive but perfectly natural to wonder what happens to characters after the books in which they appear have ended. In fact, the better the book, the greater the illusion that its interesting people have been leading autonomous lives and are still, somewhere, doing more of the same...