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Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics

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Seth Kaplan on Encountering True Devotion to Art, For Its Own Sake

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How Harlem and Jamaica Inspired the Music of Harry Belafonte

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