Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.