After Henry a game of hearts and heists and Tita grows up to

and Tita grows up to be a master chef

Whoever holds Canute holds the key to the thrones of England and Denmark - and Askeladd has his own reasons for joining the fray

As the flames of their passion grow

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After Henry a game of hearts and heists and Tita grows up to"We tell ourselves stories in order to live" was the opening line of Joan Didion's celebrated The White Album. In After Henry, her new collection of pieces, most of them reported and written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, she examines, precisely and suggestively, the stories people tell themselves about murders and earthquakes and wildfires, about presidential politics and Patricia Hearst and Central Park "wilding, " about boom