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  • The Cover of “Time” (January 31, 1969)

    January 31, 2024

    On January 31, 1969, Time magazine broke the story.

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  • On J. G. Ballard’s “Evening in the Sun” (from Newsweek, 28 January 1985)

    January 29, 2024

    from "Newsweek", 28th January 1985Prisoner in Shanghai by David Lehman, with Donna Foote in Shepperton, England Stint not on the superlatives: "Empire of the Sun" belongs on anyone's short list of outstanding novels inspired…

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  • Marsha de la O: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    January 28, 2024

                                        ________________________________________________   Poem Beginning in Loneliness       Let’s start with the loneliness                 …

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  • The Prophecy of an Assassination: John Frankenheimer’s prescient 1962 film, “The Manchurian Candidate” [by David Lehman]

    January 26, 2024

    from The American Scholar /  January 22, 2022 When The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon, was released in 1962, Pauline Kael called it “the most sophisticated political satire ever to come…

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  • Festival Every Body 2024: Performing with difference [By Tracy Danison]

    January 26, 2024

    “WHIP” by Georges Labbat. Photo © David Le Borgne Festival Every Body, at Carreau du Temple between 9 and 13 February, bills itself as dance, performance and material art focused on the human body,…

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  • Matisse at the Hermitage: “The Conversation”

    January 25, 2024

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