W.H. Auden was, in the final decade of his life, an extraordinarily unattractive man, and was keenly aware of it. "My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain," he told an interviewer ...

“The Heart’s Invisible Furies,” by John Boyne (Hogarth, 2017) Cyril Avery was not a real Avery. At least that is what his rather odd adoptive parents, Maude and Charles, remind him frequently.

Column/Opinion. OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: The heart’s invisible furies. November 12, 2024 at 4:06 a.m. by Philip Martin ...