A Haunted Patrimony

Click Here to Read:: Through their art collecting wealthy Jews staked a claim to being French, but the nation they loved savagely betrayed them by David A. Bell on the New York Review of Books website on July 1, 2021 issue.
Salon des Huet de l’Hôtel Moïse de Camondo. Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (75008). Image:  GO69  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

On Breathing by Jamieson Webster

Click Here to Read: On Breathing: From first moments to last rites, the air around us is not only essential to life but also carries our speech. So being silenced can feel like death by Jamieson Webster in The New York Review of Books on April 2, 2021.|
Image: Detail from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Francis I Receives the Last Breaths of Leonardo da Vinci.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.