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April 2014

“A light at the heart of the world”

by Emily Esfahani Smith

On the role of art in our secular age.

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October 2006

Doubting Thomas

by Joseph Rago

A review of Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations, by Craig Nelson.

May 1994

Anna Akhmatova

by John Simon

On the stoicism of the Russian poet.

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