Yeats

William Butler Yeats in an undated photo.

By JIM DWYER
Published: July 20, 2008

SO here, under airtight, light-shielding glass, is a notebook given to William Butler Yeats in 1908 by Maud Gonne, the beautiful, brainy feminist Irish revolutionary and object of Yeats’s infatuation across five decades, the muse — well, really, the furnace — for his poetry of yearning and his willing partner in what they called a mystical marriage. As far as actual marriage, Gonne became expert at wielding the word "no." More

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Choice Tables | Seoul, South Korea

The Weird, Wild and, Ultimately, Sublime
By MATT GROSS
Published: July 20, 2008

SOMETIME after midnight on a Sunday, the streets of the Myeongdong neighborhood in Seoul were quiet and cold. The young shoppers who flit from Adidas to Tommy Hilfiger to Club Monaco had gone home to study for December exams, and restaurant workers were setting barrels full of leftovers onto the curb to be picked up by early-morning garbage trucks. The city was going to sleep. More

McSame on Viagra vs Birth Control

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Pod Time

The pods are growing long on the catalpa trees.