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“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” Thus starts the novel “The Go-Between,” by L.P. Hartley. It seems a sensible, perhaps even ingenious, statement, an effective way to connect time and space. In Euclid’s Elements, a point was…

The Modi government has removed more than a hundred million people from voter rolls and is cracking down on a vigorous protest movement.

For decades, Tom McCarthy has attempted to blow up the conventions of the realist novel. With his latest book, “The Rhyl Poster,” it seems that his approach may have reached its limit.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s announcement that a convicted murderer would be publicly executed later this year prompted a strange and vivid memory of a man I saw put to death in a similar ceremony long ago. Hegseth said last week that the death sentence…

Someone died. You mistakenly assumed that my brain wouldn’t beeline straight from “unexpected call” to “someone died.” You’re feeling too lazy to text, and you know perfectly well that I’m just going to let it go to voice mail and then text my response anyway.…

New York City, 1936. A party around Christmas at the Artists Union on Ninth Street. One imagines a sugar-dusting of snow on the ground outside and “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” on the radio. A man, drunk, swaggers over to a couple on the dance floor and…

In Greece, the Secretary of State cast the West as a civilization defined by its warriors and conquerors, not by its democracies.

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