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… Side, we holed up in a squat and barricaded it like a medieval fortress, welding the doors shut from the inside and … taken over five towns in Chiapas, posting demands on their website for indigenous rights and autonomy, in what was … the driver jumps out of the cab and runs away. On September 26, packing to leave New York, Brad sent an e-mail to Al …
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… life—muscle on muscle on muscle, a LEGO stack of bodies—threw themselves into the water, dangled on wires, and … body—a parenthesis surrounded by bobbing exclamation points. Seven women formed a circle in the lower corner of … with a six-month-old baby at home—came in second, .2667 points behind the winning Russian team. In both the …
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… numbed or terrified by what surrounds them—the state, the community, or the violence of the prairie itself. The first … horrors. He is the insensitive killer, but he is also capable of losing himself in romantic daydreams or his … when he lighted them, and he knew that someone would die. Although the story closes with the boy angrily seeking …
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… surprisingly, spontaneously foul-mouthed when in the right company.) And he’s unusually frank about his spotty … brims with Hispanic references: the Romancero (Spain’s medieval ballad tradition), the vallenato (a native music … is exactly the same as that of Leaf Storm; they’re points of view organized around a dead man’s body. In Leaf …
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… is a series of interviews with professional writers who are also fathers, discussing how they balance the two, what the … the first installment with Tobias Buckell. “You must not come lightly to the blank page.” —Stephen King Ro Cuzon is … regimented, but then I’m a Virgo and likely OCD, so I’m completely okay with that. And Oona just started pre-K, so I …
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… Oliver W. Hill Civil rights pioneer Oliver W. Hill Sr. has died in Richmond at 100 years old and will lie in state at … County, Va. , one of the five cases that the Supreme Court combined into Brown v. Board of Education . That case, of course, ended segregation in public schools, but it also opened the door to the Civil Rights Movement—and Hill …