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Out in the Great Alone

           "I landed Anchorage in the middle of the night. The next morning, I drove an hour north to Wolf Lake Airport, a private airfield…

The Light in Antarctica

May 16 (1898). The long night began at twelve o’clock last night. We did not know this until this afternoon. At four o’clock Lecointe got…

Robert Hughes: Art and Money

The art market we have today did not pop up overnight. It was created by the great liquidity of late twentieth-century wealth. Sell a block…

Secrets of an Art Thief

Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in…

South Carolina Secedes

Gentlemen: we have met here under circumstances more solemn than any of us have ever been placed in before. No one, it seems to me,…

Hollywood’s Big Night

Back in 1948, Raymond Chandler knew the score. The Oscarsby Raymond Chandler Five or six years ago a distinguished writer-director (if I may be permitted…

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