In an attempt to escape the world's anxious hum, one chronically overstimulated writer booked into a silent retreat – no reading, no writing, no eye contact – to spend 10 days turning into his psyche.

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Established in 427 CE, Nalanda University in present-day Bihar, was home to one of the world’s first great universities, ...

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On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

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In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

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Former Manchester City captain Tony Book has died at the age of 90. One of the most successful players in the club's golden era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Book won domestic and European ...