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From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI was still lying on my back, the white nylon bib around my neck, the sour taste lingering in my mouth, when the hygienist said, "Oh honey, you're beautiful. You should take care of your smile." The dentist had just...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI first discovered a counter-world to the horrors told to me of Germany by my Jewish elders in Walter Benjamin's book Berlin Childhood Around 1900. His words stirred in me a sense of coming home to this defiled city. A...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe first opportunity I had to see a Johns retrospective--at SFMOMA in 2013--I declined. Instead I spent several afternoons in the Jay Defeo retrospective hung in galleries opposite his. That I preferred Defeo had little...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn August 1999, I flew to Nigeria from Chicago via St. Petersburg, Helsinki, and Amsterdam. If you get a kick out of experiencing intense and disorienting contrasts, try that route. My childhood friend Alex drove me to...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedT he Ituri Forest. An emerald map-splash in the upper reaches of the Congo River basin. Today or the past century or millennia ago. Hyraxes make their final nocturnal shrieks before the horizon begins to brighten in the...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMy children," said Dr. Johnson, "clear your minds of cant." If professional politicians should follow this advice, many of them would be likely to find their occupation clean gone. At elections they are so wont to...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMama is digging through a cabinet, looking for a spare picture frame, when she pulls out a cassette tape in its see-through case. She hands it to me. "I thought this was lost forever," I say, turning it over. "You...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt's not unusual for an issue to offer multiple angles on mortality. Whether exploring the mystery of fever and illness, violence in a synagogue, or a father or mother moving into the past tense, the pieces here...