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

“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.

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 ...