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Hard SolacesOne morning in June 2011 the British writer Jonathan Raban woke with a bewildering sense of frailty and lost balance. As he climbed the stairs to...
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Who’s Canceling Whom?The instantly notorious exchange in a congressional hearing on December 5 between Representative Elise Stefanik and the presidents of Harvard, the...
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War Zonefor Paul Auster Days emptied out along the hairlinecracks where you spilled the glossy oilwhere you stopped resemblance from looking,where your...
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‘The Voice of Unfiltered Spirit’Ralph Waldo Emerson was endlessly seeking his ideal writer, who was “part and particle of God,” as he wrote in Nature (1836). So it comes as no...
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Isn’t It Interesting?Lore Segal was ten years old when the Nazis occupied Vienna, in March 1938. Within weeks her father lost his job, her parents were evicted from...
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The Pain ArtistEd Atkins’s Pianowork 2 is a sixteen-minute computer animation that involves an uncannily realistic digital avatar of Atkins playing Jürg Frey’s...
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Ethical EspionageOn October 7, as Hamas fighters roared into southern Israel from Gaza, bringing terror and death to anyone they encountered—Israeli soldiers,...
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Month to MonthSo-called feminine hygiene products are self-effacing by design. Imperceptibility—the “no feel protection” advertised by Always pads, the “made to...
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Charged WondersIn 496 CE a giraffe arrived at Constantinople. It was a rare event. The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly...
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Character ReferencesTo the Editors: While warmly appreciating Nathaniel Rich’s generous and comprehensive assessment of my book, Politics and Literature at the Dawn...
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‘A Simulacrum of Elections’On December 23, three days after the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), I received a call from Moïse...
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Not JazzIn 1968 Miles Davis let his second quintet dissolve. He no longer needed a small working band, the stable unit of semi-equals that had been...
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The Dress FormIn our Holiday Issue, Kathryn Hughes dives deep into the Regency-era closet in a review of Hilary Davidson’s “riveting and beautifully...
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Stopping the Old Rio GrandeOn the map Falcon Reservoir widens the course of the Rio Grande for sixty miles, its waters spreading into Texas and Tamaulipas. But from many...
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How To Film A CityNew York City’s greatest natural resource—its cast of characters—inevitably attracts prospectors, but attempting an industrial-scale mining...
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New MoneyHenry Hamlyn was a British wool merchant who lived during the first half of the sixteenth century. His house stood on a central street in Exeter,...
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Édouard/EdgarColin B. Bailey, the director of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, has written about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art for...
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Songs of ConvenienceWhenever there’s been a turn in my life, I’ve turned toward him. The first afternoon I got to college, worn out from a fifteen-hour flight from...
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Even as a GhostGrowing up in India in the 1980s, I got the news of the day from Frontline—a magazine published in the southern city of Madras and known for its...
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Across the MoominverseScandinoir was born in November 1939, when the Soviet Army invaded Finland and the Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson wrote a story in which a...
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Song of the Disgraced Personfor Kaveh As a fire axe waits in its little shop windowAs a tongue returns raw to the lozengeIt’s not your fault you’re like this, but you areAs...
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Transmissions from Another WorldA friend of mine is a photographer or, as he puts it, an artist who uses photography. He’s also a professor, and I asked him recently if he finds...
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A Eulogy of Failed RemembranceThe German novelistic tradition, like the Spanish, begins with a picaresque novel of memorable brutality. Grimmelshausen’s Simplicius...
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Follow the LightA painter is like the pilot of a small boat—constantly correcting course, ever alert to changes in the weather, trying not to get swamped by the...
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The Discovery of EuropeIn 1560 Paquiquineo, a young Kiskiack or Paspahegh man from the Chesapeake Bay area, was invited aboard a Spanish ship exploring the coast of...
