Nick Das

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Game-changing surgery can cure prostate cancer in one hour
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The 'game-changing' treatment uses electrical currents to destroy difficult to reach tumours. (Credit: Darryl Leja) Doctors in the UK hope that …
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The 9 Simple Things You Should Be Doing in 2023 to Lose Weight, According to Experts
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No more dieting and exercising for hours to lose weight. Here, we’ll dive into the best ways to lose weight and keep it off in 2023, according to …
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The Art of Fiction No. 228
The Paris Review
Notes from Elena Ferrante’s final revisions to The Story of the Lost Child. Over the past ten years, the translation into English of Elena Ferrante’s novels—including Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter, and the first three volumes of the tetralogy known in English as the …
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The Art of Fiction No. 143
The Paris Review
Susan Sontag lives in a sparsely furnished five-room apartment on the top floor of a building in Chelsea on the west side of Manhattan. Books—as many as fifteen thousand—and papers are everywhere. A lifetime could be spent browsing through the books on art and architecture, theater and dance, …
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The Art of Fiction No. 76
The Paris Review
Raymond Carver, 1984. Photograph © Marion Ettlinger Raymond Carver lives in a large, two-story, wood-shingled house on a quiet street in Syracuse, New York. The front lawn slopes down to the sidewalk. A new Mercedes sits in the driveway. An older VW, the other household car, gets parked on the …
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The Art of Fiction No. 43
The Paris Review
John Updike, ca. 1968. In 1966, when John Updike was first asked to do a Paris Review interview, he refused: “Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep. Also, I really don’t have a great …