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The New York Review of Books

‘Such Flexible Intensity of Life’

Charlotte Under Pressure

Ledger

When and Where Is Home?

Surviving the Manosphere

A Helluva Town

The Ayatollah’s Kingly Woe

Writing Their Prison’s History

At the Chinese Table

Cows Lying Down

A Daring Escape

Profiles in Power

I Stand Here Ironing

Slaughter for Hire

Road to Nowhere

The Cares of State