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Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie
Jim did little revising and was proud of it. Rewriting was for people who hadn’t worked everything out early—not for Jim. By Terry McDonell.
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New monument to honor Paiutes slain in Circleville Massacre
A new memorial will mark a dark but rarely mentioned moment in Utah history when Mormon settlers slaughtered as many as 30 Paiute men, women and children in the small town of Circleville 150 years ago. By Dennis Romboy.
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Memorial
The masterpiece—the war memorial, wall hanging, apologia—tells the same old story, a case of do or die: a tale of friends betrayed, cross-Channel invasion, and the passage of a comet heralding the doom of old England… Alison Kinney on the Bayeux Embroidery. (May 27, ’15)
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Oliver Sacks Tribute Captures His Quirks and Insights
Readers, friends, colleagues and former patients gathered for a celebration of his life and work at an event for the World Science Festival. By Erica Goode.
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Jane Fawcett, British code-breaker during World War II, dies at 95
She deciphered a German message that led to one of Britain’s greatest naval victories, the sinking of the battleship Bismarck. By Matt Schudel.
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A Blues for Albert Murray
His name was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so. By Thomas Chatterton Williams. (May 16, 2016)
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Remembering Daniel Berrigan: A Penniless, Powerful Voice for Peace
Father Berrigan, whose funeral will be held on Friday in New York, opposed war, bigotry and abortion with a distinctly Catholic voice. By Jim Dwyer. (May 5, 2016)
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Silence the most fitting memorial at Somme commemorations
On centenary of first world war battle, poignant services were attended by political leaders and victims’ descendants. By Esther Addley and Helen Pidd.
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Never a Hippie, Always a Freak
When Zappa shows up in a suit and tie debating Robert Novak on Crossfire, the effect is less the ’60s freak who became a normal adult than an uncompromising individual voice channeled into a different format. By Paul Grimstad.
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The Old Man
A writer remembers his father. By David Means.
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The FBI, My Husband, and Me
What I know now about Ted, whose photographs documented the 1960s, and about J. Edgar Hoover’s attempts to label him a Soviet spy. By Shirley Streshinsky. (June 6, 2016)
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Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, dies aged 76
Author whose memoir of Vietnam was deemed by many to be one of the best accounts of life in wartime ever written, has died in New York. By Sian Cain. (June 24, 2016)
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The Rise And Fall (And Rise Again) Of Frances Farmer
The reality of Frances Farmer’s life is much sadder than the legends surrounding it. By Elisabeth Sherman.
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David Bald Eagle, Lakota Chief, Musician, Cowboy And Actor, Dies At 97
He was also a war hero and a ballroom dancer — Bald Eagle’s life is hard to fit in a headline. He parachuted into Normandy, acted in Westerns and starred in his first feature film at the age of 95. By Camila Domonoske.
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The British-American coup that ended Australian independence
In 1975 prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died this week, dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price. By John Pilger. (October 23, 2014)
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‘He Was a Crook’
Hunter S. Thompson's scathing obituary of Nixon, originally published in Rolling Stone on June 16, 1994.
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Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater (2006)
Julie Anderson
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Mute and Alone, He Was Never Short of Kind Words or Friends
Bernhardt Wichmann III, a Korean War veteran, possessed little except a big heart, and he spread kindness up and down his street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. By N. R. Kleinfield. (July 29, 2016)
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Alan Rickman Recites “If Death Is Not the End,” a Moving Poem by Robyn Hitchcock
Oddball singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock is a man who knows how to mark milestones. Back in 2003, he staged a concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in honor of his own 50th birthday, and in so doing, created a time release milestone of sorts for his friend, actor Alan Rickman. By Ayun Halliday.
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Kiarostami and The Purge
All of a sudden The Purge: Election Year became a stand-in for America’s violent, cynical, stupid cinema—the exact opposite of everything Kiarostami stood for and everything he achieved over four and a half decades of filmmaking in Iran and elsewhere. By A. S. Hamrah.
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