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Writing into SilenceJune 16, 1948, was the beginning of the twelve-year conflict that would come to be called “the Malayan Emergency” by British colonial troops and...
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A Culture of Repression and NeglectOn May 1 in New York City, a twenty-four-year-old white ex-Marine named Daniel Penny choked a thirty-year-old Black man named Jordan Neely to...
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Stories AdriftMedia attention to war-torn countries follows a pattern. At first outrage and the pursuit of justice drive a twenty-four-hour cycle of coverage....
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Golden Coats, Sacred SpoonsIs the third time the charm? Charles’s first coronation was at Gordonstoun school in November 1965, when he played Macbeth. There is a photograph...
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The Superego of the Magazines“It is blind acquiescence to collective madness, the twisted appeal to the common good, that propels citizens into fascism,” writes Jacqueline...
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The Oracle of Public RadioMichael Silverblatt’s voice has been described as “so hypnotic, so compelling, that it apparently has prevented people driving on the LA freeways...
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Shifting SandsEarly on the morning of May 6, 1682, the Royal Navy warship Gloucester careered into a large sandbank off the port of Yarmouth. It bounced along...
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At Odds with Two Worlds“Let them eat grass,” said Andrew Myrick, a trader who owned several stores on the Dakota reservations in Minnesota. He was referring to the...
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Bewitched by GoetheWe can change a face, change a gender, change a race, change a voice; produce the true illusion of someone speaking words they never spoke; sell...
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The Frontier JusticeSupreme Court Justice William O. Douglas had all the makings of a successful politician. His rugged good looks accompanied an energetic...
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Farewell Poemfor Dmitry Golynko You are leaving with all these poems. You are leaving. An over-the-shoulder bag is over your...
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The Fight for Fair WagesAt the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, the giant wooden front doors swing open to reveal the company’s...
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The ExtinctLong ago, I find the housewith one blazing window and sneak upto peek in: there are my parents in each other’s armsnaked in the rumpled bed,...
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Blues, Grays & GreenbacksIn August 1861, a couple of weeks after the Union’s disastrous defeat at Bull Run, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase traveled from Washington to...
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The DeerWalking alone in a forest, I came upona deer—this was not a vision.It faced me, on its four thin legs,unmoved as a cave paintingbrushed by light....
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The Inventor of Magical RealismNeither Gabriel García Márquez nor Mario Vargas Llosa had yet been born when the Guatemalan Miguel Ángel Asturias began to write his first novel,...
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Saving Lives and Making a KillingThis past December the American Society of Hematology held its annual meeting in New Orleans. More than 30,000 attendees listened to presentations...
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The Limits of Language1. In the mid-Aughts, advocacy groups for sexual assault survivors began to publish guidelines for journalists covering sexual violence....
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From Russia, with LoveIf you order Jennifer Homans’s Mr. B.: George Balanchine’s 20th Century, you might want to tell the delivery man to bring a hand truck. With the...
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‘Tell Your Story, Omar’In 1721 an ancestor of mine in South Carolina, Elias Ball, bought a Muslim woman named Fatima on the wharf in the port city of Charleston and...
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Seeing Through It AllAre novelists required to like humans? It’s fair to say, on the evidence of her published writing, that Sara Baume is not a people person. Her...
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The Documentarian“I have always had two ideas: that one day I would have to write about my father’s story, and that if I ever did so I would never be able to write...
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Loot Under the LindensPartially clad in a Baroque façade of glowing cherubs, gods, and lions, Berlin’s Humboldt Forum was conceived as a way to make a shattered city...
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Political BlindnessTo the Editors: Susan Neiman’s review of my Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes [NYR, April 6] combines her own remembrances...
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Originalism’s LimitsTo the Editors: David Cole’s “Originalism’s Charade” [NYR, November 24, 2022] is a devastating critique of originalism as a method of interpreting...
