India Ink: State of Paradox

Source: The New York Times

May 27, 2012, 1:00 am By THE NEW YORK TIMES “‘India’ and ‘change’ were once virtual antonyms: old India hands returned again and again in large part because the subcontinent was so dependably different from the West,” ...
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I’m still looking ... for the truth

Source: New York Post

Thirty-three years ago this weekend, when I was 9 years old, police arrived at our front door to search for Etan Patz. The 6-year-old had disappeared without a trace, seemingly vanished into the air. Just a child, I w ...
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Spies and killers populate worthy firsts

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

Too often, practitioners of the espionage genre fulfill some of its requirements — an intriguing plot, plenty of thrills and twists — but ignore the human aspect and fill their novels with characters cut clumsily from cardboard. In Kabul in 1979 before t ...
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Waiting at the Finish Line

Source: Paperback Writer

I always have at least one reward waiting for me at the novel finish line, and this time around it's Lucidity, our blogpal Raine Weaver's latest release, which is available in most e-book formats at all the major on ...
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Schizophrenia Has A Beautiful Toll.

Source: Experience Project

I see such magnificent dreams , each so lucid that i can write down every detail. I imagine things of such epics and i question if its the illness that allows me to explore my mind but shuts of my daily life. I've felt the ice on my face, a ...
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Wallace Baine, Baine Street: The legend of Travus T. Hipp

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel

Sticklers for grammar - and I count myself one of them - go a little bit crazy whenever they hear someone apply degrees to the word "unique." It's like "pregnant." You either are unique or you're not. Nothing is "very uni ...
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HHhH, By Laurent Binet (trs by Sam Taylor)

Source: The Independent

Laurent Binet knew what he wanted to avoid when he embarked on his debut novel, which is about the assassination attempt in Prague in May 1942 of the head of the Gestapo, Reinhard Heydrich, by a Czech and a Slovak, Jan K ...
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up

Source: Guardian Unlimited

At a time when eye-straining, ear-bashing, hi-tech 3D movies are being drearily touted as the inevitable "future of cinema", Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011, Entertainment, PG) reminds us that great movies – and g ...
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Know about Lucid dreaming?

Source: GirlsAskGuys.com

so I just heard of this from a friend last night it is VERY interesting, HAVE YOU HEARD OR DONE THIS BEFORE? its basically you are aware you are dreaming you can control your dream. When you are on a question page, id of that que ...
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