For as many lauded coffee shops, brunch spots and craft cocktail bars there are in Portland, it's still baffling how little success few restaurateurs have had in offering a reliable combination of the ...

Mon, March 6, 2017 at 9:55 PM UTC “Most of those songs were recorded in a friend’s warehouse space on 8-track,” Smith told me in a January 1998 interview for Billboard, just prior to his Oscars ...

Linda: Most of us have been brought up to think in either/or terms. We may not even realize how much it is costing us to continue these old patterns that dominate our thinking. Either/or thinking ...

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With her debut novel “The Idiot” having been crowned a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Elif Batuman set towering expectations for the sequel “Either/Or.” Beginning where the first novel left ...

Literary sequels are difficult to pull off. I read Elif Batuman’s new novel, “Either/Or,” directly after rereading her 2017 novel, “The Idiot.” That’s 700 pages of the same naive adolescent character, ...

Elif Batuman’s latest novel, “Either/Or,” drops you into 1996, where Selin is a second-year Harvard student. As the reader, unsure how you’ve ended up in 1996, you accept that she is now your best ...