SHANGHAI ’37—Vicki Baum—Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Author Vicki Baum this week moved her Grand Hotel from Europe to the Orient. Her scene: a Shanghai hotel, in the summer of 1937. Her cast of ten ...

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. —Oscar Wilde Source: Pixabay The manic defence is the tendency, when presented with ...

STYLE is one of those serendipity words that as common readers we value too much to enjoy defining. If pushed, we may agree with Charles Maurras that it includes the animating thought, or we may ...

Most people regard themselves in more positive terms than other people regard them, and have an unduly optimistic outlook on their circumstances and possibilities. Such positive illusions, as they are ...

The visual art of Emily Jacir, “Where We Come From” (2003), and Eman Haram’s photo exhibit, “Involuntary Memory” (2006), inscribe a memory that resists the systematic effacement of collective history, ...

HIV infection is the most devastating infection that has emerged in the recent history. The risk of being infected can be associated with both individual's knowledge and behavior and community ...