which focuses on a sex worker yearning for true love, does not share many common themes with the short story. However, Harvey does borrow a few lyrics from Salinger’s work. Namely, the lines, “Rose is ...

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I n one of the 50 marvelous sketches populating Eugenio Montale’s “Butterfly of Dinard,” a writer named Gerda asks a young ...

In a 2019 review of Cambodia, the United Nations called for an end to “social norms that justify gender-based violence”, including the abolition of the Chbap Srey, a poem that is a “root ...

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When 20-year-old Mary Weeden got engaged during her final year at Oxford, her father took aside his future son-in-law for a ...

Waiting, Ha Jin’s 1999 novel about a doctor torn between two very different women in a changing China, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National ...

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