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Modernity

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From “The Painted Word,” which appeared in the April 1975 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. People don’t read…

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A Posthumous Shock
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Rethinking the ways we perceive trauma in the past and present

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