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Criticism
… never have imagined that such a mode of viewing would be come a quaint anachronism.) Thoughts of political havoc were … on Lee Harvey Oswald. Phillip Kerr’s standalone The Shot also takes us to Dallas on November 22, 1963. Though not a … a review of Oswald’s youth and chaotic life (his father died before he was born, and he had moved twenty times by …
Reporting
… The real deal. Which is why the blue-eyed stranger has come, why he thinks that his host will take him across. … behind it. Then he pulls a cell phone from his jeans and dials an American number. Boss of the bosses. What a … be that. He knows this: unless something changes, he will die. And that’s what has driven him to make this call, to …
Reporting
… brain as she lay sleeping with her 3-year-old son. “She died in the last half-hour of the year,” Mr. Arida said. …
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