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“My best work comes when the intellect—which might have served as some kind of scaffold—is breached somehow and falls away.” —Christopher Alessandrini, interviewed by Nandini Krishnan https://t.co/B1uvYoBXBo 2.1K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

“It was by stumbling into dead ends that Maren Hassinger found her métier as a sculptor.” —Carolina A. Miranda https://t.co/ZowB8FLy7w 3.3K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

In Cloudthief, “an ecojournalist engaged in a comprehensive reckoning with his trade” finds himself at the center of a “contemporary thriller and journalistic thought provoker.” —James Walton https://t.co/iyM40MWb7v 3.2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

A patient’s suffering can be “amplified by physicians who dismiss their complaints as...in their heads,” Jerome Groopman writes. “A doctor’s ego may be an obstacle to admitting being stumped in making a diagnosis.” https://t.co/SndomajVlf 2.6K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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“She averts her dark- ringed eyes from the viewer, but they are not downcast,” writes Ingrid D. Rowland of Queen Isabella Farnese’s self-commissioned portrait. “Isabella is a queen, after all, subordinate to no one but the God who anointed her.” — Ingrid D. Rowland 3.2K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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The tragedy of the musician Billy Preston had to do “less with the familiar story of racism in rock than with the Black church and the closet,” writes Brian Seibert—“what one old friend of Preston’s calls the ‘things that he held in.’” https://t.co/khNp3Dmayr 9.3K views · 16 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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“The preferred term now is ‘expert,’ which feels less redolent of pompous chicanery and more inclusive of objective science: connoisseurs had loupes and dusty archives; experts have OptiVISORS and macro X-ray fluorescence scanning.” — Susan Tallman https://t.co/ogWVv2yTmM 4.1K views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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Martin Filler on the day he went to Roy Cohn’s office, where he was “startled to find that behind the imposing limestone façade of this midblock Beaux-Arts mansion were interiors as shabby and barren as a Morningside Heights frat house.” https://t.co/PllFUvwJ5o 10.3K views · 12 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

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“The disparity between the high artifice of [Dolly Parton’s] appearance and the authenticity of her personality—not to mention the reality of her artistry—became a dialectic that drove the public’s fascination.” —Jarrett Earnest https://t.co/zDus1aMjVP 8.3K views · 15 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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At Shakespeare in the Park, “nothing is locked in. Staging may be set, but every performance is different because the audience (or the sky or the sounds of the city) finishes the work with you” —Raúl Esparza https://t.co/fdVqSJRU6c 13.8K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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“The threat to morality today is less our consciousness of its diversity than the growing consensus that it’s a sucker’s game.” —Susan Neiman https://t.co/l5B1Ga3AWs 16.3K views · 36 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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The National Institutes of Health’s little-known Undiagnosed Disease Program is “a clinic of last resort” that can provide “meaningful relief for patients who learn [their affliction is] not all in their heads.” —Jerome Groopman https://t.co/xqxTiG2bqN 2.9K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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“She averts her dark- ringed eyes from the viewer, but they are not downcast,” writes Ingrid D. Rowland of Queen Isabella Farnese’s self-commissioned portrait. “Isabella is a queen, after all, subordinate to no one but the God who anointed her.” — Ingrid D. Rowland 3.4K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

“A good deal of protest against Israel’s actions might be seen as defending the very political values that antisemites have long sought to undermine.” —Omer Bartov https://t.co/275GKajX5t 4.9K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

“It was by stumbling into dead ends that Maren Hassinger found her métier as a sculptor.” —Carolina A. Miranda https://t.co/ZowB8FLy7w 5.4K views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Most people desire a firm foundation for morality. “Who wouldn’t like to point to something external that could silence Alex Jones—or at least the tireless sophomore at the back of every ethics class?” —Susan Neiman https://t.co/mNehi1dx46 758 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

In the heady 1980s nothing induced panic like “a lawyer’s letter...over the signature of Roy M. Cohn, Esq., widely known as New York’s most cutthroat power broker, a macher among machers, the fixer of all fixers,” writes Martin Filler. https://t.co/CQq8mDEPL1 1.7K views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dolly Parton’s music, writes Jarrett Earnest, was defined by “a commitment to a moral universe beyond materialism and money” and “the belief that we make the world, other people, and ourselves beautiful and precious through love.” https://t.co/r5pxsJC9TF 2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

After devastating earthquakes this summer, “many Venezuelans pleaded that they were on their own.... Thousands of ordinary citizens from Caracas and other parts of the country came to fill the vacuum.” —@willieneuman https://t.co/8p8MXG4NDQ 4K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Our 10/8 issue is now online, with @fotoole on Roy Cohn, Anahid Nersessian on the middle-aged manosphere, @JerryBrownGov on nuclear apocalypse, Frances Wilson on the Lambs, Ariel Dorfman on Vargas Llosa’s last, @rachelbnolan on mass protest, and much more. https://t.co/ATsUKsuiNF 6.3K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Susan Neiman on squaring moral universalism and empiricism https://t.co/VovmgMfl1y 1.3K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

James Walton on ecological distress and technological thrills in Nathaniel Rich’s Cloudthief https://t.co/isc86W2kJF 1.2K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jerome Groopman on the “clinic of last resort” for patients with undiagnosed diseases https://t.co/2C6fdo3Uh6 1.7K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ingrid D. Rowland on the figure of the royal patroness in art history https://t.co/UwOATP5nlQ 2.3K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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“Neither the political left nor the Muslim world...has in the past century offered a form of anti-Jewish prejudice anywhere near as coherent, influential, and dangerous as that of their right-wing counterparts.” —Omer Bartov https://t.co/psyCA9Y52X 7.1K views · 35 likes · 11 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

The United States’ campaign to destroy the International Criminal Court “raises the alarming possibility that Ratko Mladić’s present-day counterparts…may not have to fear that they will suffer his fate.” —Aryeh Neier https://t.co/dFQ5BlYhtr 5.5K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

“It’s true that in the course of criticizing Christians, I often found myself defending Christianity.... I had, much to my surprise, become fiercely protective of the Christianity I had renounced.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn https://t.co/7f3Epqdo9h 6.1K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

“The disparity between the high artifice of [Dolly Parton’s] appearance and the authenticity of her personality—not to mention the reality of her artistry—became a dialectic that drove the public’s fascination.” —Jarrett Earnest https://t.co/zDus1aMjVP 6.1K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →