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The Essay

Writer Michael Goldfarb recalls his time driving a taxi in New York in the 1970s as an aspiring actor. He remembers a place of violence, arson and near economic collapse - but also of artistic ferment

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  • Death in Trieste

    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

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    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

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