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a concrete courtyard, looking at the viewer and smoking a cigarette. Her hair was pulled back in a ponytail, her eyes were lined, and she wore lipstick. She's wearing a sports dress and battered adidas sneakers. It is surrounded by old...

reinforced concrete: one theological, the other moral and juridical. The first: God cannot be invoked to bless war. The second: the threat directed against an entire people — the Iranian people, in this specific case — is “truly...

of ‘lean[ing] against a bank while a van passes’ (the roads leading into the village are extraordinarily narrow), the ‘electric heat’ and the ‘empty silence’: even now, East Coker is miles from a main road and any busy traffic or...