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The Lasting Influence of John Berger

Entertainment & Culture
BooksThe Lasting Influence of John BergerHis TV series “Ways of Seeing” popularized a Marxist view of art and made...

The Trouble with Saying What You Mean

Entertainment & Culture
BooksThe Trouble with Saying What You MeanIn “The Channel,” the poet Jana Prikryl borrows voices from Shakespeare and her...

The Telephone’s Tangled History of Intimacy and Control

Entertainment & Culture
BooksThe Telephone’s Tangled History of Intimacy and ControlHow an invention that brought distant voices close rewrote the rules of...

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

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BooksBriefly NotedSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyMusic Against the Night, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus &...