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Author: Fernanda Eberstadt
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Beyond Bedlam
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In August 1843, the English painter Richard Dadd stabbed his father to death. The Egyptian sun god Osirus told him to. Dadd, an ambitious and accomplished young artist, had returned…
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Project a black planet: the art and culture of pan-Africa
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born in London in 1977, is one of the best British artists alive today. Enigmatic, mischievous, troubling, her work comprises rich, densely scrabbled Old Master-like oil portraits of…
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Ines Weizman and Eyal Weizman are a couple. Each has just published a book that uses architecture to explore history, geopolitics, war.
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SARAJEVO — Inda Omerovic Swanke is a television journalist living in Bosnia and Herzegovina. What’s it like moving back to Sarajevo, after thirty years away? It’s inspiring, it’s intense, it’s…
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Lee Miller brought surrealism to her war photography. She was humorous, generous and great fun. But « the stench of Dachau » never left her.
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Would you rather eat your friend or your enemy?
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This summer, when it’s been too hot to contemplate cooking any kind of meat, let alone human, Le Monde has been publishing a wonderful seven-part series on cannibalism by the science journalist…
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When the beans won’t cook
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I’m futzing around the kitchen, heat-wave grumpy. I’m cooking white beans with tomatoes for dinner; I soaked the dried beans overnight, but they are a little too old, too long…
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Mothers who don’t feel so motherly
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Last week, I wrote about Nebraska, a novel in which a mother pushes her handicapped child in front of a train. This week I’m reviewing an only slightly less murderous non-fiction book…
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Mrs. Chatterjee’s children
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The novel’s grisly premise hits you on the opening pages: Anna Chatterjee’s husband and two surviving children are journeying to the upstate New York prison where Anna is scheduled for…
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Carlo Ginzburg: They are the Dogs of God
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I needed to know more about werewolves. Carlo Ginzburg, I realized, was my man. Ginzburg is an Italian historian who practises what’s described as « microhistory » — in his case,…
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Orford Ness
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We stepped off the ferry — an open motorboat, with room for twelve passengers — onto the dock. We’d come for a day’s outing to Orford Ness on the Suffolk…
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On Marjane Satrapi
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Some people remember 2000 as the year our computers DIDN’T all explode. I remember it as the year Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis appeared. Persepolis was a comic-book autobiographical novel, and its heroine was a…