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I was six the first time I recall setting foot in a funeral home, and I remember my confusion at the phrase—a home where none but the dead lived, and…

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Lady Day of the Alhambra

Billie Holiday’s changeable shade

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Carrie Sun used to be on the side of Big Money. Her memoir, Private Equity (Penguin Press, $29), describes her disillusioning tenure as an assistant to Boone Prescott, the founder…

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Sometimes Gamesome, Sometimes Sad

The elusive fiction of Phyllis Paul

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The Wa State is an autonomous zone nestled in the highlands of Myanmar bordering China and Thailand. You won’t find it on United Nations maps, but it’s about the size…

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Sex and Grue in Ancient Rome

On Mary Beard’s lives of the Caesars

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The Discreet Eminence

On the enduring legacy of Marshal Pétain

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On May 21, 1991, in the third-floor men’s room at the University of Chicago Divinity School, a student noticed a hand dangling beneath one of the partitions, already turning blue.…

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Overwhelming and Collective Murder

The grand, gruesome theories of René Girard

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Did you get this message?, by Esther Pearl Watson © The artist. Courtesy Vielmetter Los Angeles So you’ve seen a UFO—great! May I suggest keeping a lid on it? The…

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All the Images Will Disappear

On Annie Ernaux’s spectacular impersonality

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A few years ago I found myself close to an episode of tabloid intrigue. A friend’s uncle was accused of murdering his wife in a rich Connecticut town. He attempted suicide…

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From Churn to Burn

Colson Whitehead’s half-true Harlem

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Do Cartels Exist?

A revisionist view of the drug wars

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Blue Self-Portrait, by Arnold Schoenberg, circa 1910. Courtesy the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna The Lexicon of Musical Invective may be the only music reference book compiled mainly out of spite.…

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Human Lock, by Vojtěch Kovařík. Courtesy the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo, Brussels, New York City The title of Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel, Kairos (New Directions, $25.95), refers…

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The novel form is capacious and elastic, in some instances deployed like a magnifying glass on a water droplet, and in others as a panoramic lens to encompass a vast…

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Time Is a Violent Stream

On losing a father and finding Stoicism

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Left: “Milan Kundera, Prague, 1969,” by Gisèle Freund © The artist. IMEC/Fonds MCC/Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York City. Courtesy Galerie Franz Swetec, Düsseldorf. Right: “Rising of Rudé právo,” by…

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Signs and Wonders

Charles Portis and the art of getting out in time

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History’s Fool

The long century of Ernst Jünger

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Self-Portrait, 1901, by Pablo Picasso © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society, New York City/Musée National Picasso-Paris Picasso is to art as Kleenex is to tissues. Few artists have…

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Outback Gathering, by Mel Brigg © The artist. Courtesy Wentworth Galleries, Sydney Anyone who has seen the Australian outback knows that it defies description. The country’s pioneer history is relatively…

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Arms and the Man

How not to write an action movie

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