In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

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He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.

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Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

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She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun ...

So it was telling that the only victory on the floor that Democrats scored during the hours of drama this week leading up to ...

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In the course of her career, which also included a dozen earlier years on other routes, she drove an old postal jeep that she ...