In “Presence,” the historian Erin Maglaque pieces together the fragments of early modern womanhood. By Mattie Kahn The stories in her new collection deal in jagged emergencies and in wounds both ...
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As a child, he discovered that his father — and therefore he and his siblings — had been passing for white. For the rest of his life, he identified as Black. By Richard Sandomir In “Presence,” the ...
An icon of Silicon Valley’s counterculture, Stewart Brand is confronting his final years in a home that embodies the ...
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