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    “What Makes ‘The Living Dead’ My Film of 1968.” A great piece by the movie critic J. Hoberman, who is programming a 1968 film series this week at the excellent : via

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    Can Art Change the World? A discussion with Mary Schmidt Campbell, Julian Lucas, and Phillip Lopate, moderated by Ian Buruma, on September 16 as part of the

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    Kavanaugh hearings begin this am. Here are 10 critical questions.

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    An all-time classic from December,1989 via

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    Worth reading on the future of the courts

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    Jeremiah Moss follows a genealogist-historian who has made it his mission to care for the graves of the victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, NYC's deadliest workplace disaster until 9/11

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    William Finnegan's fascinating piece in about fires in the West that have been getting more intense and more widespread, are which are only going to get worse. A frightening tale.

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    “It was the sheer beauty of her voice, the tone and quality of it, the gift of it, that told us how acquainted with grief Aretha Franklin was.”

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    Garry Wills on the Catholic troubles.

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    This is simply sensational reporting from that does not seem to be getting the attention it deserves. Great, understated writing as well.

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    Writers and their cats. A young Doris Lessing was party to a cat massacre; for Vivian Gornick, a more typical experience: being ignored

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    “Journalism gave me a kind of exoskeleton for maneuvering through the world. Everything I learned came out of the newspaper.” talks with about Homicide, The Wire, The Deuce, and trying to “capture a shard of the real” on TV

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    How ordinary Germans became Nazis: improving economic conditions, and a conviction that the Holocaust was fake news.

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    Did Trump know that Flynn had lied to FBI—and that FBI had tapes—when he lobbied Comey? Incontrovertibly: establishes new fact that WH attorney saw intel and relayed information to WH and Trump: “The Flynn Tapes: A New Tell” via

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    “No matter how often it happens, it’s always startling to be reminded how poorly thought out and haphazardly executed are so many things critical to our well-being.” Deborah Eisenberg:

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    “Steely, searching, brisk”: Lorrie Moore on Rachel Cusk’s incredible ‘Outline’ trilogy. via

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    Programmatic architecture and the myths of California

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    "Despite the shadow of Vietnam, for Afghans the melancholy fact is that the American public is not much engaged with what happens in Afghanistan, either way," writes Ahmed Rashid.

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    This is an exceptionally good article on an exceptionally difficult topic.

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    “Some years ago, after having lived alone for decades, I found myself yearning for something alive in the house besides myself and, to my own great surprise, decided on adopting a cat.”

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