A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on November 4, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto.
I watched a brief compilation video called “15 Completely Hazardous Mercury Experiments,” and then a video showing what ...
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From a previously unpublished letter in The Letters of Emily Dickinson, which is out next month from Harvard University Press. to unknown, late january 1878 Dear friend. We recollect you,… ...
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Number of different forms of torture the Syrian government is suspected of having used during the country’s civil war : 72 Factor by which women are more likely than men… ...
How the press combats rumor, the market rigger, and the propagandist ...