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Do I imagine it,” the disquieted American visitor asks his wife one night in bed, “or is it true that when they speak of the Nazis—downstairs, I mean—the very next sentence is invariably some quite ...

Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, by Andy Beta. Da Capo. 480 pages. $32.50 She had so many names, it’s sometimes difficult to know which one to use. They succeed one ...

In November 2023, as Israeli politicians and journalists blurted out their fantasies of mass extermination, the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas co-authored a statement titled “Principles of ...

One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact ...

Pen remembers it all. It was 1968. They took a family vacation to Sanibel. Pen’s father drove the station wagon. He held the wheel tightly and gritted his teeth and smoked cigarettes when he wasn’t ...

n the fifth of last November, I, accompanied by a friend well known to the public, accidently strayed into Whitechapel. It was a miserable evening; very dark, very muddy, and raining hard. There are ...

They were both named Davis, but they were not married to each other and they were not related by blood. They were neighbors, however. They were both indecisive people, or rather, they could be very ...

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