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Sisyphus on the StreetTracy Kidder’s portrait of a doctor and his homeless patients offers personhood to people many Americans have trained themselves not to see.
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‘Thus I Lived with Words’The modern reading public has resisted relinquishing its settled idea about Robert Louis Stevenson as a romantic fantasist, but in his day he...
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The Way She Was“I never thought I was great,” Barbra Streisand writes in her capacious memoir, but the truth seems to be that for a large part of her life she...
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Piety & PowerA lively biography of Marie de Vignerot, the niece, confidante, and heiress of Cardinal Richelieu, sheds light on the religious passions and...
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Indonesia’s Corrupted DemocracyBehind the victory of his chosen successor in February’s elections lies a complicated story of how outgoing President Joko Widodo’s co-opted...
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The ChannelerI am delighted to have Anahid Nersessian as my guest, not least because she’s a good friend. Anahid is a professor of English at UCLA. I have...
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Mourning NavalnyOn February 16, not long after news of the death of Alexey Navalny became public, television cameras caught Russian president Vladimir Putin on...
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Eyes on the Farm Bill!Few pieces of federal legislation merit as much and receive as little attention as the Farm Bill.1 Most people who slog through this...
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Your Fancy-Pants Brain“You can write down all the equations of fluid dynamics and still be surprised by a tornado.”
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Life and Death in AlabamaOn February 16 Alabama’s supreme court ruled that fertilized, unimplanted embryos created using in vitro fertilization (IVF) are children under...
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My Secret Police FilesI have often wished that I could access at least one of the many police files that have undoubtedly been compiled about me since September 11,...
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The Constitution Turned Upside DownIn one of the Supreme Court’s most sweeping rulings in modern times, a five-man majority has effectively nullified a critical provision of the...
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Unilateral ActionsIn the city of Rafah, at the southern edge of Gaza, people are consumed by terror and dread. Over the course of nearly five months, IDF...
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A Permanent ElegyIn our February 22 issue, Robyn Creswell writes about one of the most fabled episodes in Arab history in his review of Eric Calderwood’s On...
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Out ThereThe earliest work in Guardian, an exhibition at Tara Downs of seven paintings by Budd Hopkins, is a small abstract tondo, a circular canvas...
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In Search of His VocationThe best description of In Search of Lost Time may come from what Proust calls dreams in its opening pages: “a formidable game with time.”
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Outsider’s OutsiderAt once famous and obscure, marginal and central, Harry Smith anticipated and even invented several important elements of Sixties counterculture.
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Time & Taskto Eliot Weinberger on his LXXV I. Madagascar: “a rice cooking”...
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The Cost of Our DebrisThe stated purpose of Jay Owens’s new book is to “think with dust,” specifically “human-made” dust and what it reveals—the forensic...
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Morning of DepartureThe neighbor’s mulberry tree spilling its fruit onto the sidewalk stained the old sneakers I took from my mother’s closet, but there was no need...
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Iraq’s Twenty Years of CarnageTwo journalists give eyewitness accounts of the immeasurable damage inflicted on Iraq since the US invasion.
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‘An Archaic Country,’ Dark and BrightA new collection of stories by the novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya celebrates the women of Russia, countering the frequent bleakness and tragedy of...
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Laugh RiotTo understand Trump’s continuing hold over his fans, we have to ask: Why do they find him so funny?
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The Party LineA new book about Western journalists’ experience in Moscow during World War II sheds light on the problems of media manipulation and...
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Social Progress & the CourtsFor decades Gerald Rosenberg, author of The Hollow Hope, has argued that courts labor under structural constraints that will almost always...
