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Fatheralong
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Cadillac (detail)
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Noble and savage
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The bitter extremes of Elsa Morante

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Eloquent phantom
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Tayeb Salih's search for an elusive present

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Barack Hoover Obama
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The best and the brightest blow it again

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Outliers
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Untitled
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Cold as life
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The artful lucidity of Jean Rhys

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The Electric Company
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How technology revived Ellington’s career

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G.O.P.Y.T.
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A letter from Ronald Reagan to Michael Jackson, dated February 1, 1984, five days after the singer’s hair was set afire by pyrotechnics during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.…

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Known Knowns
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From a May 10, 1988, letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to all Party members. The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan began…

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