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The Games

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For several hundred years, no matter who was fighting or what kind of warfare was being waged, a truce was always proclaimed throughout the land at the time of the…

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Moving Portraits

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The City That Bleeds

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Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising

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The City That Bleeds

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Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising

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Cinefiles

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By Luc Sante, from an essay that appeared in March in Metrograph Edition, a publication of the Metrograph Theater in New York. Sante’s most recent book is The Other Paris.…

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History of Violence

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From Melancholy Accidents, by Peter Manseau. The book compiles colonial and early American newspaper reports of accidental gun deaths and was published in March by Melville House. Manseau is a…

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Auto Traitor

From a complaint filed in Texas in December by Mark Oberholtzer, the owner of Mark-1 Plumbing, against Charlie Thomas Ford, a car dealer. Read More

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Cut With the Kitchen Knife

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We conventionally use the period to punctuate a finished thought. But Rosmarie Waldrop, one of the most innovative poets in English, deploys the period as a rest, often musical, in…

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Fifty Years Under a Cloud

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The uneasy search for our atomic history

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The Habits of Highly Cynical People

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On April 24, 1916 — Easter Monday — Irish republicans in Dublin and a handful of other places staged an armed rebellion against British occupation. At the time, the British…

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Con Voyage

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From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

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