From all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came. I was told before arriving that I would probably be a “sight” for the village; I took this to mean ...

From Speaking in Tongues, by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, which will be published this month by Liveright. j. m. coetzee: I was writing something yesterday, concentrating intensely on getting ...

From explanations given by priests as to why sexual abuse was acceptable, as described in Pennsylvania’s “Fortieth Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report.” The report, which was released in August, ...

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When Firestone was an infant, her father, then a soldier in the U.S. Army, witnessed the immediate aftermath of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen; as Shulamith’s sister Tirzah described it, “He was ...

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Percentage increase this year in sales of the Canadian flag by Flags Unlimited, one of Canada’s largest flag manufacturers ...

I am sitting in a bland conference room in Midtown Manhattan with twenty-nine so-called business professionals, and one of our instructors, Sharon, has just told us to imagine a huge rectangular brass ...