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… the Roma of Bulgaria Stoyan is the mayor of Hope. He is also its doctor, social worker, psychologist, marriage … polished to a maddening shine; a pair of sunglasses, like compound eyes, rests on his dark forehead. To the casual … basis for three edicts—among so many others—of the Imperial Diet (in 1497, 1498, and 1500), which advocated the …

… State of Scarcity On Compromise in Lockdown When the COVID-19 lockdown order … the virus is not interested in individual choice, it is also not interested in justice. And because we live in an … racialized people: by the extraction of wealth from their bodies; by their imprisonment and policing; by their use as …

… Sky High Among the Pyros at One of the Biggest Fireworks Competitions in the World The 2012 L'International des Feux. … a couple of theatrical and production professionals, Daniel and Julie; Sean, so enamored of the pyrotechnic … The Lac des Dauphins, a dirty pond that separated the audience from the firing position, was all at once a lake of …

… whether one is thinking of Alexander Portnoy in Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) or David Kepesh in The Dying Animal (2001) … earlier generation of Jewish-American writers and intellectuals, the ones who collected around the water cooler at … Counter-Life (1986), a novel in which certain characters die in one chapter only to be reborn in the next. Indeed, …

… For each of us, says Proust, there may be “certain bodies, certain callings, certain rhythms that are specially … frontier, taking the risk, disdaining the status quo, but also landing the movie deal. What happens to the American … offers two artist figures, both of whom were masks for competing aspects of Pound’s artistic identity: the effete …