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Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?
“What power?” I asked. “All kinds of power,” he said and smiled. In June, when Trump announced he had brought ...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
At the end of the summer, Yun learned that ICE moved Jim to their detention center in Alexandria in central ...
God Bless “A Christmas Carol,” Every One
In Naples there is Via San Gregorio Armeno, where you can find shop after shop run by artisans who specialize ...
One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World
Five of them died in the first winter. But there was plenty of hunting, and the settlement soon flourished, spreading ...
In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
“The natural assumption about a place like Brodgar is that it’s built to last,” Edmonds continued. “If stones are missing ...
Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
“It was the first time in my life that I didn’t have to do anything,” Asawa said later. She took ...
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
Af Klint later stated (implausibly, according to some historians) that Steiner warned her that the world was not ready for ...
The Icelandic Artist Ragnar Kjartansson, Absurd and Profound in Equal Measures
Kader Attia The Oubliée Bag (2024) uncovers a treasure trove of family memories, using photographs and archival material buried in ...
Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real
On certain days, I would skip school and go to the Museum of Modern Art to daydream a little. It ...
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir | The New Yorker
Hamlet finds himself in a similar position, to put it mildly, and it is almost comically appropriate that Hopkins' memoir ...
