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First Cover of the NYT Book Review
The New York Times Book Review turns 125 this year. The front page of the first edition published in October 1896 carried a story about the condition of Oscar Wilde who was serving the final year of his jail sentence.
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Worst Revolution Ever
This is the best piece of writing I have read about the events of last week. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/worst-revolution-ever/617623/
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snowballs from 1897
‘In Lyon, this street from the snowball fight is still there. It still looks basically identical: the trees, the buildings. I am staring at it now on my computer screen, and in my mind I am already planning a trip, imagining a pilgrimage, in some unrecorded future” – Sam Anderson
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Change
“I do think that the fact that people exposed to a situation that they could never have imagined have adapted so extraordinarily well gives cause for optimism. We can change. We know that. Because everything is impermanent. Change is the only permanent condition in our lives.” – Anthony Gormley
Antoine Ó Flatharta 