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The Invention of the Modern Self

Books & the Arts / How did the idea of the individual come into being? David A. Bell In that classic of Western cinema, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the title character addresses a crowd in Jerusalem ...
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Nov. 16-22 include comedian Pete Davidson, movie director Martin Scorsese and ...
Casting aside old ideas in order to progress forward is a typical theme of most protests, yet there are some movements that use the past in order to stand up against the future.
Norwegian title of Henrik Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck,” folding its wings this weekend in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ...
We’re now a bit more than a month into the season, and while we’re not quite at the infamous American Thanksgiving benchmark ...