Throughout, Lee’s invocations imbue his subjects with an air of divinity.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2026
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.
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.
For cadres and others subject to rectification, the process sorts who is in and who has fallen out of the good graces of party leaders.
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ANDREW MERTHA,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Sep. 2026
Not bad for someone who started blogging out of a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf location on Sunset Boulevard, where stars came to him to say hello, trade gossip and get in his good graces.
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