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It has been absolutely unbearable here all weekend. We live as west as you can get, the beach within spitting distance, and al...
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In the New Yorker, Ruth Franklin on Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel:The “situation in the world,” fifty years after ...
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As we ease back into non-tour routines and raise a groggy head from the sick bed, herewith a look at what commands our attention th...
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Two extraordinarily good reviews for you to spend some quality time with today: First up, Daniel Mendelsohn takes on The Landmark Herodotus (which we have been dying to crack open) for the New Yorker:A major theme of t...
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