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Buying presents for children is so much fun: I get to buy lots of the things that I desperately wanted as a child in a display of vicarious pleasure, and children are always so disproportionately happy with their gifts. Because all my friends have children...

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As the Olympics begin, Jeremy Jenkins celebrates Britain’s prowess at inventing sports, tracing the origins of tennis, cricket, badminton… and whiff-whaff If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your...

It’s been one of those fire and ice days. The sun’s been up. Now it’s going down. Call the finished work ‘Sunfall,’ a dark yellow sky spread uniformly across the canvas. Already the bushes nearby the front porch appear as...

Huntingtower was a departure for John Buchan. Published between the third and fourth of his tremendous Richard Hannay novels, the book’s protagonist is not a soldier-turned-spy, but instead a retired Scottish grocer who joins a quixotic effort...