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You might have caught the news, last spring, that the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, ordered another swathe of early releases from prisons in England, citing overcrowding in the cells. They quickly filled up again, leaving us with the impression that hundreds of old lags had been evicted in order to accommodate a round of convicts new to the profes...


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1986

Now that I’m here, I have no idea what to do!

I’m new to Arizona, new to this dead-end job answering phones. Everyone here hates me. I know because each morning we pick an empty cubicle to work in. I’m the early bird so get first crack: corner, with a window overlooking the courtyard. No one takes second best, ...


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The Fells
Cumbria, England

All I ask for, at the end, is a last long resting place by the side
of Innominate Tarn . . . A quiet place, a lonely place. I shall
go to it, for the last time, and be carried: someone who knew
me in life will take me and empty me out of a little box and
leave me there alone.
—Alfred Wainwright, Memoirs of...

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Seamus Heaney may be the last modern poet to take Dante for a model.⁠[1] Though Heaney, a Roman Catholic of Northern Ireland, is thought of as a natural heir to the Anglo-Irish W. B. Yeats, you don’t find him listening to the traditional ballad as Yeats ...


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If the last decade has taught us anything, it is that politics is theater. And seldom have two more histrionically gifted performers strutted the political stage than Charles James Fox (1749–1806) and Edmund Burke (1729–1797), allies on the liberal wing of the Whig party through an era of high drama; their long friendship foundered only late in their careers, with the outbrea...


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