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A weekly email taking aim at the relentless absurdity of the 24-hour news cycle.
A photograph by Henri Prestes from his monograph We Were Born Before the Wind, which was published last year by Setanta Books.
© The artist. Courtesy Setanta Books
Lily of the Incas, a painting by Mar Figueroa, whose work is on view through January 21 at Sean Horton (Presents), in New York City.
© The artist. Courtesy Sean Horton (Presents), New York City
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“You are twenty-one—exactly the same age I was when I had my one and only abortion, in London in 1938. This was way before anyone talked about the ‘right’ to an abortion, and I want to tell you my story to convey how precious a right it is. Abortions then were totally illegal; the very subject was taboo among the well-brought-up English of those days. I wouldn’t have dreamed of consulting anybody in my family, from whom I was estranged and who anyway wouldn’t have been likely to have useful ideas on the subject.”
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