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… people on the route, turning to them as to a massive human compass. And they obliged. They pointed us along bumpy roads … Ambassador. Surprisingly, our Scotch-taped ruse worked. Soldiers in khaki fatigues stopped us, but they didn’t ask for … histories harder to unravel. Still, clean-shaven and briefcase-in-hand, he had traveled all the way from Delhi to be …

… on its wheels and struts, it seems positively stalwart compared to its companion, collapsed on its belly—a gesture of abjection, it feels, but also prayerful? Inside the trailer shells I glimpse blankets … asks for money for a traveling memorial to his father, who died in April. They had just reconnected after Joey got …

… Bruckner, I don’t want to sit back and listen to all the false endings, the dramatic build-up of the horns about to … who can dictate who should live with whom, who should die happy. On the other hand my blood’s the same Sienna …

… given time. The fact you got out just means one of your buddies got bumped to the top of the list.” As if on cue, I … opinion on a sudden and insistent offer he’d received of “compromising information relating to the Russian military.” … and few make any pretense of entertaining alternative points of view. With subtitles like Spies, Murder, and the …

… seems to be that Osbert and Edith were two of the most accomplished literary hustlers of all time and if the English … a book about a couple of enterprising self-publicists who also happened to write and—surprise, surprise—sometimes … avid for details about the lives of the once great. This audience, grown brutal on sweat, tears, and intimacies, is …