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To the surprise of many, the family of legendary novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez sold his personal papers to the University of Texas. It's nothing political – but all about posterity, and money of course.

A decision to publish a sketchy manuscript as a posthumous novel by the late Gabriel García Márquez would have horrified Colombia's Nobel laureate, given his painstaking devotion to the precision of the written word.

yes, dogs can be life-enhancing in a myriad of ways. They just need responsible owners with a modicum of cop-on and consideration for others

“The Wolves of Eternity” wrestles with conflicting worldviews in a tale of intersecting lives.

Paulina Bren’s The Green Grocer and His TV filters the culture of Czechoslovakian communism post-1968 through the television sets that were burgeoning in popularity during this period.

In My Crazy Century, Ivan Klímas emphasizes moral dilemmas in spare, simple prose, avoiding cant or cliché.

The Curtain continues a form Milan Kundera embarked on in The Art of the Novel: lovely, meandering observations on the genre to which hes consecrated his life

Scrolling for thrills is not the same as digging deep. We don’t build wisdom or friendships with a swipe on a screen.

The language of the heart is feelings. When we follow our hearts, we listen not to our head but to what we feel is right. But to listen to the hints emerging from the heart, one has to be full of discernment and be deeply attentive. The symphony of the heart doesnt have a single flawed note. Its divinely prophetic.

From the blog of Inna Rogatchi at The Times of Israel