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false witness

The Taking of Christ. Caravaggio, c. 1602

I’ve only ever seen my father read one book. It’s The Poem of the Man-God, a 5,000-page tome of divine messages written from 1943 to 1947 by Maria Valtorta. My father picked up the book in his late...

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tales of the city

Weng Fen – Sitting on the Wall – Guangzhou 3, 2002-2003

You could say that Newark was doomed from the moment of its christening. If what would become the great skyline of New York had then just begun to cast a shadow, the founders of New J...

a year ago
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folie à une

Soir Bleu, Edward Hopper (1914)

What does the reject tell himself in order to live?


Tulathimutte writes devastatingly in “The Rejection Plot”: “Devotion…feels like empathy, but is actually the opposite. When wishful thinking become...

a year ago
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all's unfair in love

A still from Éric Rohmer’s 1970 film Le genou de Claire (translated unstylishly as Claire’s Knee). I have not seen it, but Becca Rothfeld praises its depiction of romance in her excellent new essay collection, All Things Are Too Small.

In...

2 years ago
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(in)action movie

he’s so me fr

Breaking news: I, John D. Zhang, have been watching more films lately. (I use the term film rather than movie so as to loosely identify myself with the A24-adjacent, card-carrying indie theater member community.) Unfortunatel...

2 years ago
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