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Jean Strouse
At the age of fifty-one, with his work in high demand on both sides of the Atlantic, John Singer Sargent swore off painting portraits. He had been eager for some time to escape the confines of the studio, the pressures of multiple sittings, and society portraiture altogether.
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Gabriel Winslow-Yost
Writing about video games almost always tends toward memoir, if only implicitly. Games are consumed actively in a way that is very different from encounters with books, movies, or other art forms: by definition, one’s time with a game is time spent taking actions, making decisions.
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William D. Nordhaus
Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment and capitalism overlooks the central part that markets, particularly market-based environmental policies such as carbon pricing, must play if countries are to make substantial progress in slowing global warming.
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More in the October 8 issue: Joyce Carol Oates on Joan Didion’s triumph, Tim Flannery on the inner lives of animals, Jacob Weisberg on television vs. the Internet, Sue Halpern on the dark Net, and a previously unpublished review by T.S. Eliot.
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Stephen King
William Sloane’s two novels are best read after dark, I think, possibly on an autumn night with a strong wind blowing the leaves around outside. They will keep you up, perhaps even until the rim of morning.
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MUSIC
Before they return to opera in the fall, the young, Brooklyn-based company LoftOpera presents two song cycles by Gustav Mahler and Hector Berlioz.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
A new exhibition shows for the first time in New York the twenty-seven Brassaï printsused to illustrate Henry Miller’s novella Quiet Days in Clichy.
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