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… platform. Her body attentive to the need to lay still, the composure of her limbs reflected the grace of the memory. … because you’re the only one who will remember him.” “Did he die?” “No. I don’t think so. If he had, there would have … it, take it. It’s valuable. It cost a lot of money in 1926, the year I was married. That’s when your father had …

… events, aged specters signifying a time when wars, if bloodier but as tragic as any today, seemed to have defined purposes and goals, contemptible though they may have been. I have never … WWII veteran, though not of the Normandy landings), a D-Day commemoration at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in …

… Mademoiselle years, hard data on George were difficult to come by. A biographical fragment of possible accuracy: the … never to be in a closed room with a man alone. I had also to swear not to approach Central Park at night or set … was wrong with Brooklyn. Once settled in New York, I obediently left the Park by sundown, being too overworked ever …

… the spring of 1986, professional historians and intellectuals in the Bundesrepublik have been engaged in a bitter … , about the status of its history. In some ways this should come as no surprise. Nineteenth-century Germany was the … German—and the white Southern— cases should be carefully studied by those who want to ground identity in group …

… The Art of Watching Looking at Animals Looking at Us Early in January, a few days into the New … in mid-March, early January belonged to a past life. The recommendation came during my first virtual cocktail hour, … King , it’s wild, we’re loving it. The next day a second recommendation appended one of many check-in emails, then a …