Their selective invocations of Washington may have obscured his complicity, but some abolitionists truly believed doing so would help bring the horror of American slavery to an end.
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John Garrison Marks,
The Atlantic,
25 July 2026
Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer?
Keeping the camera still in a courthouse’s small, windowless chambers, Depardon depicts these face-to-face showdowns as litanies of misery, as the officials make suspects confront the grim circumstances leading to their arrests.
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Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2026
Hval’s restless melodies and at-times Proustian lyrics trail cigarette smoke or the fragrance of roses toward litanies of memory, all the while deconstructing the very natures of stage performance, recording technology, and digital existence.
Fame has this way of making other people want to be in your good graces.
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Merve Emre,
The New York Review of Books,
11 Aug. 2026
Indeed, any ambitious scientist had to be in the good graces of these Big Players or risk financial ostracism and effective banishment from the halls of Big Science.
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