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In The Schubert Treatment, musician Claire Oppert shares her experiences with the healing power of music. A classically trained cellist, Oppert was inspired by the work of her physician family members...
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Both the first hospital and the first medical school in the United States were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, landing it the nickname 'City of Medicine.' Therefore, it seems only natural ...
Read ArticleIn the 1920s–1960s, the Barbizon Hotel for Women was a residential hotel where respectable upper-middle-class and well-off working women could live in New York City on their own while ...
Read ReviewWomen's Hotels in 20th Century New York City
In Women's Hotel, Daniel Lavery introduces readers to the fictional Biedermeier, which is based on the real-life phenomenon of residential hotels for women only that existed in New York City ...
Read ArticleIn 2022, Sally Rooney delivered a lecture that later ran in The Paris Review, in which she stated that Ulysses could be placed in the literary tradition of Jane Austen, adding that her reading of ...
Read ReviewSally Rooney Reads from Intermezzo in Dublin
On Saturday, September 21, 2024, more than 500 people gathered at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, located a few meters from St. Stephen's Green, a setting in Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo. ...
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Movies are great escapism, and why shouldn't they be? An art form in its own right, rich in imagery and metaphor, the cinema offers many lessons that can be learned about ourselves and others just by ...
Read ArticleThough he will go on to become President, reformer, and national hero of Mexico, in 1853 Benito Juárez has just been sent into exile by the dictator Santa Anna, along with many of his liberal ...
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