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A father sees his seven-year-old son off at a railway station in Hefei, China.
Hilary Spurling's top 10 unputdownable Chinese books | Books | guardian.co.uk
John Stammers's top 10 love poems | Books | guardian.co.uk
Iamb smitten ... Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love John Stammers is a poet and creative writing teacher.
Harry Mount is a journalist, author and editor of the Notting Hill Editions Journal , which commissions a new essay every week.
Harry Mount's top 10 essays | Books | guardian.co.uk
Do the Classics Have a Future? by Mary Beard | The New York Review of Books
Dante and Virgil in the first circle of hell, meeting classical poets, including Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan, who were virtuous in life but are condemned to Limbo because they were never baptized; engraving by Gustave Doré
Vaclev Havel’s death on December 18th, 2011, deprived the world not only of a superior—which is to say thinking—human being but of a theatre artist whose achievements on the world stage are bound to be eclipsed by his great political strides, though I don’t see how you can separate the two.
Culture Desk: The Plays of Vaclav Havel : The New Yorker
Santa, baby, next year please: can we get Arthur Kopit’s brilliant “Discovery of America” on the boards?
Culture Desk: The Best Theatre of the Year : The New Yorker
As the year comes to a close, we asked our photography critic, Vince Aletti , to tell us his top ten exhibitions of 2011.
Photo Booth: Vince Aletti’s Top 10 Photo Shows : The New Yorker
I applied to college one evening, after dinner, in the fall of my senior year in high school.