by Susan Sontag READING and listening to music: the triumphs of being not myself. That nearly everything I admired was produced by…
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Anton Chekhov in Yalta, 1900; Charles Dickens at Antoine Francois Jean Claudet’s London studio, circa 1852 Tim Parks Why do we categorize…
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By Rebekah Frumkin The disease that has put the entire world on pause is easily communicable, capable of stowing silently away in certain…
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A homeless person in a phone booth on Madison Avenue, New York City, May 8, 2020 Phil Penman New Yorkers’ lives…
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Jeremy Anderberg • March 5, 2015 Last updated: May 19, 2020 Welcome back to our series on the libraries of great men. The eminent men of…
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Suspected communists under armed guard, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 1, 1965 Vincent Bevins In May 1962, a girl named Ing Giok Tan…
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Igor Stomakhin. Masha Gessen at her apartment in Moscow in the early 1990s, when she was in her mid-twenties Masha Gessen FEBRUARY…
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D.M. Smith/Imperial War Museums/Getty Images. British soldiers taking cover in a shell hole near Arnhem, the Netherlands, September 17, 19449 Max Hastings…
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Mondadori Portfolio/Electa/Bruno Balestrini via Bridgeman Images Detail from Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello altarpiece, 1325–1328 Pamela Druckerman One of the first things…
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Käthe Kollwitz: Mothers, 1919. Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource Caroline Fraser MAY 28, 2020 ISSUE No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About…