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Inspired by his late friend Eudora Welty’s anthology The Norton Book of Friendship, Donald brings psychological and philosophical literature on friendship together with primary sources culled over his prolific career as a Lincoln scholar...
Bloom, 74, was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard from 1987-88, during which time he lived in Adams house. He has otherwise taught at Yale for the past 51 years. “I long ago began referring to myself as Bloom Brontosaurus,” he joked, “but I intend to go on teaching as long as I feel I’m capable...
Because I have often found more comfort in words than in people, I turned to my Norton Anthology of English Literature on that black day after the election. I was looking for something visceral, for a howling dark poem, but instead I found “When I Was One-and-Twenty,” by A. E. Housman: “When I was one-and-twenty/ I heard a wise man say,/ ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas/ But not your heart away… But I was one-and-twenty/ No use to talk...
...Some of us know that poetry isn’t limited to the Norton Anthology,” Thomas said...
...there are plenty of smart shortcuts for the time-pressed breadmaker, says Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of The Bread Bible (Norton, 640 pages) and the host of a new public-television program on baking. Artisanal breads "don't need to be made all in one go," she says. "A lot of people don't realize that bread is actually better if the dough is allowed to sit overnight in the refrigerator and then baked when you come home, or the following day." Beranbaum recommends using a scale for measurement by weight rather than volume, which, she says, will ensure...