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Kudos for Cusk
Rachel Cusk’s recent “Kudos” closes a brilliant trilogy of novels —beginning with 2014’s “Outline”— that was [...]
Hospital histrionics
Fraud is a global sport, but in Italy, land of Verdi and Puccini, melodrama can intercede to [...]
The Russiagate challenge
The investigation into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia is perhaps inevitably bringing illicit financial practices [...]
Dejà-vous!
Life comes with only a few universal experiences. Benjamin Franklin once said that everything about it [...]
From words to anatomy, and back
About five years ago, I briefly considered embarking on a second career as a doctor. Though [...]
Where I come from
My stepfather Willis and my mother Becky were Communists. They met in 1952 when both sang [...]
Genoa, tolling
John Donne can grab summer calamities by the scruff of their necks and shake to account. "Send not [...]
Black man, white voice
The film's title is “Sorry to Bother You," and that's also the first line of the script that [...]
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Kudos for Cusk
Rachel Cusk’s recent “Kudos” closes a brilliant trilogy of novels —beginning with 2014’s “Outline”— that was [...]
Hospital histrionics
Fraud is a global sport, but in Italy, land of Verdi and Puccini, melodrama can intercede to [...]
The Russiagate challenge
The investigation into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia is perhaps inevitably bringing illicit financial practices [...]
Genoa, tolling
John Donne can grab summer calamities by the scruff of their necks and shake to account. [...]
Dejà-vous!
Life comes with only a few universal experiences. Benjamin Franklin once said that everything about it [...]
Ascendance complete
My mother once knew a physicist she purposely used as conversational garnish. She'd add him into [...]
From words to anatomy, and back
About five years ago, I briefly considered embarking on a second career as a doctor. Though [...]
Black man, white voice
The film's title is “Sorry to Bother You," and that's also the first line of the [...]
Duck Butter
In the age of dating apps, true intimacy is a difficult goal. People spend so much [...]
Where I come from
My stepfather Willis and my mother Becky were Communists. They met in 1952 when both sang [...]