Short mother-son quotes. 1. “Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.” —A.E. Coppard, English author. 2. “There ...

Much Ado about Cooking’ and other food books to read in April, the month of Shakespeare. Also, food in Austen and Amitav ...

Much Ado about Cooking’ and other food books to read in April, the month of Shakespeare. Also, food in Austen and Amitav ...

Not being much of a linguist, I was filled with doom when I realised I had a date with my French inlaws-to-be but luckily I ...

Most people think originality comes from endless freedom. The role playing game Dungeons & Dragons suggests the opposite. It gives players a small number of races, classes and backgrounds and somehow ...

Feb. 2 marks Groundhog Day — the day when North America’s favourite weather prognosticators weigh in on whether we are in for an early spring or an extended winter. In Balzac, located just north of ...

For Honoré de Balzac, Paris was a theater of exiles, frenzied creations and secret refuges. Between debts, pseudonyms and reinventions, the novelist left imprints that the capital has preserved.

The 19th-century novelist Honoré de Balzac was Catholic, French to the core and obsessed with the material details of French society. Yet there is something profoundly Hindu in the way he sought to ...

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Honoré de Balzac, trans. from the French by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, and Jordan M. Stump, edited by Peter Brooks. New York Review Books, $17.95 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-59017-664-1 As Peter ...

BALZAC—Rene Benjamin—Knopf ($5). Fiction could be, has been defined as imaginary biography. Biography in its latest form could be defined as imaginary fiction. Into this definition fits the work ...

Tucked into a quiet location just off Paris’ busiest shopping avenue, Hôtel Balzac is a bastion of 1930s-inspired luxury and quiet calm As a long-time and frequent visitor to Paris, I’ve become a ...