You get all of the self-important self-pity of a nasty case of the flu without the runny nose. Herewith are eight sentimental debilitating illnesses in literature, ranked from least to most ...

Brilliant work (from a brilliant mind, and pen). I ended that column by saying, “Next in my hands is another of his novels: Beware of Pity.” And this column, I will devote to that. Zweig was a ...

The Pity of Partition’s ensuing parts cover ... Switching between the genres of history, literature and biography, Jalal makes a strong case for the inclusion of a consideration of Manto ...

Earlier this year, at the Jaipur Literature Festival ... hesitation therefore that I approached Ayesha Jalal’s book, The Pity of Partition. What would this book tell us, I wondered, that ...

Self-pity is "pestilential destructiveness ... While grieving, she looked for comfort in a great variety of literature - C. S. Lewis, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Geoffrey Gorer, Auden, E.

A man mourning his comatose wife grows addicted to pity in Babis Makridis's austere, astringent, as-Greek-as-it-gets black comedy. In the near-decade since “Dogtooth” gnawed its way into ...