For as many lauded coffee shops, brunch spots and craft cocktail bars there are in Portland, it's still baffling how little success few restaurateurs have had in offering a reliable combination of the ...

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Linda: Most of us have been brought up to think in either/or terms. We may not even realize how much it is costing us to continue these old patterns that dominate our thinking. Either/or thinking ...

Mon, March 6, 2017 at 9:55 PM UTC “Most of those songs were recorded in a friend’s warehouse space on 8-track,” Smith told me in a January 1998 interview for Billboard, just prior to his Oscars ...

With her debut novel “The Idiot” having been crowned a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Elif Batuman set towering expectations for the sequel “Either/Or.” Beginning where the first novel left ...

Since childhood, Elif Batuman has been on a quest to find in literature “direct relevance to lived experience, especially to love.” Following her doctoral dissertation at Stanford, which explored how ...

Literary sequels are difficult to pull off. I read Elif Batuman’s new novel, “Either/Or,” directly after rereading her 2017 novel, “The Idiot.” That’s 700 pages of the same naive adolescent character, ...

Rotman School of Management’s Jennifer Riel shares a four-step process for making stronger choices. Jennifer Riel, an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, presents a model way to ...