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Sardinian arist Pinuccio Sciola built a life on the claim that stones can sing. Ten years after his death, visitors to his stone garden can listen for themselves.
In his biography of W. H. Auden, Peter Ackroyd tracks the constant tension between public and private life that the poet navigated.

Lethally Stupid

Pete Hegseth and his band of truculent lackeys won’t be around forever—but unless change comes soon, we’ll be paying for their mistakes for years to come.
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Sardinian arist Pinuccio Sciola built a life on the claim that stones can sing. Ten years after his death, visitors to his stone garden can listen for themselves.
The work of French Jesuit Michel de Certeau attempted to discern what lay beyond and beneath the glamor of postwar materialism.
Physician-assisted suicide is not harmless or selfless: it is a rejection of the inherent dignity of the elderly and the vulnerable.