Female Trouble

The title of Hillary Clinton’s memoir of her unsuccessful campaign for the presidency, What Happened, has no question mark at the end, although many people around the world might reflexively add one. Clinton’s defeat surprised—stunned—many, including, as is clear from her recollections, Clinton herself. The majority of polls of the likely electorate indicated that she was headed for a nearly certain win, although her prolonged struggle for the Democratic nomination against a wild-haired, septuagenarian socialist from Vermont was a blinking sign of danger ahead. A significant number of voters were in no mood to play it safe, and the safe choice was what Clinton far too confidently offered in both the primaries and the general election.
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Out of Control
After two hundred years, how exactly are we to go back to Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ itself, as distinct from its proliferating, multimedia myth?
Super Goethe
He alarmed people as much as he charmed them, not only by his sudden flare-ups and his unpredictable antics, but by his foul language.
More Light!
In David Hockney’s work, the video and the iPad lie side by side with the canvas and photo composite, all surfaces intended to please

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Outing the Inside
Louise Bourgeois called attention to emotions that most people prefer to keep hidden: shame, disgust, fear of abandonment, jealousy, anger.

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An Icy Conquest
“We are starved!” cried the sixty skeletal members of the English colony of Jamestown as provisions arrived in 1610.

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