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The Great Chevalier Tour: trough of inspiration for USA folklore ballet? [By Tracy Danison]
"The Great Chevalier Tour", reaching for the sky for Luxemburg, Le Grand Chevalier. Photo © Arnaud Bouvier As part of the premier of The Great Chevalier Tour, M. Chevalier chose the Vanves, France, City…
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The Spymaster as Vacuum-Cleaner Salesman [by DL]
<<< And the sad man is cock of all his jests. — George Herbert >>> Epigraph to Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958). The protagonist — an English widower living in pre-Castro Cuba…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighty-Six): Billy Collins [by Angela Ball]
In Praise of Ignorance On a bench one afternoonin a grassy park in Minneapolis,I realized that what I liked bestabout the dogs of Minneapolisis they have no idea they’re in Minneapolis. The same could…
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Douglas Murray on Israel, Hamas and the Future of Democracy
<<<“Sometimes a flare goes up and you get to see exactly where everyone is standing.” – Douglas Murray On October 7, a flare went up, and by October 8, it became clear exactly where…
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Michael Earl Craig: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________ Chunk of Sea Glass Becky I’m typing this in your study. It’s a rainy fall day and for some reason I want to type “you’re in Japan” and don’t know…
