Amidst college admissions noise, the Cookie Test helps students determine if they will succeed in a public college or if the ...

The writer Lydia Millet is often described in reviews as “funny,” her wit “devastating.” Both are true, and I’ll add that ...

“The self, as you know, is the enemy and something you must get used to shunning,” shared a fellow sister named Ellen.

“The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the bod ...

When Black Lives Matter becomes a marketing strategy, facts offer little impediment to speaking “one’s truth.” Take the case ...

Public representatives are expected to understand you manage things, but lead people. If you do neither, you lose your ...

Nicola McCafferty looks at 'Poor Things', 'Lisa Frankenstein', and how both films declare death shouldn’t stop us from living ...

Bollywood specialises in constructing such moments, but even by Bollywood standards, this is a rare one. Not many film ...

The years preceding that birthday had been defined by dietary abnegation: policing calories, frowning at the digits she saw on the scale, chasing purity at the expense of pleasure. “What wasn ...

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These days, such self-abnegation offers a chance for our managerial class to treat their organizations’ supposed pathologies with a patent mixture of tinctures, elixirs and balms. For Lincoln ...