Letters from History’s Most Famous Prisoners,” edited by James Drake & Edward Smyth.

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One is to find out what painting is and the other is to find out how to make a painting.” Now, we can follow the complexities ...

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James Bowman on the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

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A new poem by Morri Creech.

The thirty sojourners had gathered at “this gentil hostelrye,” the Tabard Inn, on the south bank of the Thames, in preparation for their pilgrimage. They decided to entertain themselves (and us) with ...

That phrase is “the banality of evil,” and it has tripped off more tongues than the book it comes from has had readers—which ...