Old Gods, New Enigmas , by Mike Davis (Verso) .
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HBO's Sharp Objects is a series made up of enigmas.
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These enigmas were merely handed off from creators to viewers.
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In both literature and games, enigmas must have a resolution.
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It marked Delphi as one of the greatest enigmas of the ancient universe.
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It marked Delphi as one of the greatest enigmas of the ancient universe.
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Well, those days are gone, replaced with acrobatic foldables, detachables, and liquid-cooled enigmas.
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He speaks in enigmas and riddles, but always with a twinkle in his eye.
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With her series Love-Birth-Death, Rabbia addresses some of humanity's most enduring, universal enigmas.
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"It's just one of those enigmas," Julie Hershberg, Eden's neurological physical therapist, told ABC News.
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And there is, above all, Ms. Gréco's face, with its sharp angles and geometric enigmas.
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So what happens when these two enigmas meet on Monday Night Football in Week 2?
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Every city, of course, has its own secret histories, its own barely obscured dark enigmas.
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They're all full of such contradictions, and you can tell they are enigmas to themselves.
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To a person (or thing), they're enigmas, and the show invites you to solve them.
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It's a rare feeling these days, when tools like Shazam can unlock sonic enigmas in seconds.
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Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have been one of the biggest enigmas for astronomers since 1211023.
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In place of the classic scenes audiences might expect, Mr. Castellucci delivers a stream of enigmas.
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Even the film's violent ending, which seems to promise some resolution, only reinforces its central enigmas.
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His productions are rich in symbols and enigmas; each movement leads to a picture-perfect tableau.
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The writers and I are working hard at including lots of secret codes and enigmas. Abracadabra!
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Brandt's photographs are dense with the enigmas and silences, riddles and obscurities hidden beneath ordinary British lives.
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That's according to the love seekers and who-knows-what-the-fuck-they-want enigmas on OKCupid.
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They form critical links in the marine food chain, some are immortal and others remain floating enigmas.
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This makes them potentially useful for probing cosmic enigmas that can't be observed with traditional light-based astronomy.
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But I console myself by thinking of all the other alphanumeric enigmas out there, still waiting to be solved.
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Others, like Mikkelson's character, are enigmas, but in the end, the things that make them so human leak through.
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But after pondering these enigmas, maybe the real question we should have been asking is: Do we know her?
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One of rap's last true enigmas, Del the Funky Homosapien leaves a thumbprint on the few things he touches.
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Rather, it's the pleasure of entering a coherent imagined world, a world with enigmas much like those we know.
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"It's one of those enigmas that's been plaguing us and staying with us for way too long," he said.
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The idea to solve these storybook enigmas was the brainchild of Jill Rosen, senior media representative for Johns Hopkins.
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"I'm hoping to create more mysteries and enigmas, rather than point to solutions or the right way to think."
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On shows in which black stories aren't important, there are many black female characters like Barbara: professionally astute enigmas.
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But as "I'll Never Love Again" suggests so compassionately, the enigmas of the hearts and loins persist throughout our lives.
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And yet, as if in defiance of such mainstream platforms, his photographs traffic in enigmas and silences, riddles and obscurities.
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Bisexual people are not a risk or a liability, nor should we be treated as enigmas by the straight world.
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With all its human and diplomatic difficulties, the ceremony highlights one of the enigmas of Northern Ireland's deep intercommunal division.
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It's surprising that neither gives more space to "Under Western Eyes," a novel crowded with enigmas and transmuted personal history.
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That nobody else onstage seems to hear it is just one of many, many enigmas not worth losing sleep over.
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The new research brings scientists closer to understanding enigmas of hibernation and solving a mystery of how this molecular sensor works.
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Similarly, Yossi's friends remain essentially enigmas, generic sidekicks without much to distinguish them beyond degrees of daring and propensity for bickering.
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In work with Charles Horioka he identified one of the great enigmas in international economics, now known as the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle.
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What exactly happened to John in Korea, if he ever went there at all, is one of this austere novel's many enigmas.
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Big Little Lies season 2, which is not yet in production, is quickly becoming one of the most expensive enigmas in modern television.
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If so, it was unsatisfying; while the piece hardly gets clearer as it progresses, its enigmas grow to feel more intentional and beautiful.
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Having explored this new box-set, I found that Bergman's art today seems more interested in laying bare intimacies than in proffering enigmas.
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So was Kidd one of Joyce's prophesied professors, made so busy by the puzzles and enigmas that he was driven to literal madness?
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But the band, from Manchester, England, has always had another side: starker and stranger, harking back to the muscular enigmas of progressive rock.
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Because the probe will dip into the never-before-explored outer corona, the mission is expected to solve lingering enigmas about the solar wind.
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Among those enigmas are what appear to be gas clouds that somehow refuse to be pulled apart by the immense gravity of the galactic center.
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Nine minutes into the film, something happened, you don't answer what happened, and then there are all these little strange enigmas that keep piling up.
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The Olsen twins are one of life's greatest enigmas, right up there with the depths of the ocean and the fact that clouds aren't fluffy.
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Another enigma I often ponder, a truly baffling enigma, maybe the most baffling of all enigmas known to man, because Henry is The Record Collector.
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Thus Williams's double-strained stain enigmas do not push back very hard against the complicity many feel with the speed of easy cultural consumption today.
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Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994, the Nazca Lines cover about 280 square miles and depict flora, fauna, geometric figures, and other enigmas.
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In the odd, difficult role created for Suzanne Farrell, Sterling Hyltin was serene and playful, giving us something graceful to watch without illuminating the work's enigmas.
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Sure, you could buy those present enigmas a book (that they probably won't read) or a sweater (that they probably won't wear) and call it quits.
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The field of "experimental aesthetics" boils down to efforts to solve two age-old enigmas: What is art, and why do we like what we like?
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And the supernatural experiences of the irreligious — cosmic beatitude, ghostly enigmas, unclassifiable encounters and straight-up demons — don't point toward any single theology or world-picture.
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Work too hard to tie up the loose ends, to weave the enigmas into a cohesive mythos, and you wind up going the way of LOST.
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The enigmas of "Persona" and the emotional shadings of "Scenes From a Marriage" are unlikely to be illuminated by any new revelations about their maker and star.
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Since 21999, those enigmas have inspired novels, subway graffiti, litigation, conspiracy theories and scores of reported sightings of Lord Lucan — or were they just mustachioed look-alikes?
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Whales are giant, beautiful, intelligent enigmas, and in Spying on Whales, Nick Pyenson takes us along on a journey to answer some of the biggest questions about them.
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Christopher Balding, associate professor at Peking University HSBC Business School Many parts of Chinese data are riddles inside enigmas, so I've learned to never take anything as final.
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Ever since the 2012 publication of the series' first book, "My Brilliant Friend," Ms. Ferrante has become one of modern literature's greatest enigmas — media-averse and resolutely anonymous.
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"Critics rating:Critics consensus: "'The OA's' second season provides satisfying answers to its predecessors' most maddening enigmas, all while maintaining the singular ambiance that fans have come to crave.
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Shakespeare spikes his play with enigmas (is Caesar really so ruthless, is Brutus really so upright), and we look to a director to help us puzzle them out.
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With a restless curiosity, Professor Keller delved into practical and often playful enigmas, developing mathematical formulas to explain a wide range of contingencies, from the esoteric to the everyday.
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Two great enigmas form the center of this elegant novel, in which a brilliant mathematician attempts to solve the impenetrable Riemann hypothesis and learn the truth of her family history.
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While many exhibitions are often mysterious or less-than-straightforward for the sake of being so, the enigmas within Tarantallegra are thematically bolstering, rather than a self-important exercise of obfuscation.
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While scientists still don't know what causes FRBs, the new discovery provides a roadmap for detecting more of them, which will help to further resolve the origins of these astronomical enigmas.
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Walter Becker, the guitarist and songwriter who made suavely subversive pop hits out of slippery jazz harmonies and verbal enigmas in Steely Dan, his partnership with Donald Fagen, died on Sunday.
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Performing one song each, they grasped at some strands of Mr. Bowie's achievements: his bounding riffs and encompassing melodies, the aphorisms and enigmas of his lyrics, his arty stratagems, his fashion sense.
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And at the end of the war, Winston Churchill ordered that any surviving Enigmas be destroyed, but many escaped into the hands of private collectors like the person who got this one.
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He pores over the evidence and grapples with enigmas, like the ashy crosslike shape where the body was found and a small, tidy animal grave that's been marked with its own cross.
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ET as we take a deep dive into the most mystifying enigmas of everyday life, the tiny mysteries that we've come to accept as the norm... only to discover they're anything but ordinary.
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Over a period of more than 30 years, he has returned again and again to certain lugubrious and exacting English themes: suburban conventions, coming-of-age anxieties and the enigmas of bourgeois love.
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I've worked with good people to leverage high-end technical capabilities to solve unbreakable "evil empire" enigmas, ensure the security of nuclear command and control codes, and help protect the electric power grid.
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In the same way that a near-death experience can lend you a sort of psychic clarity, the brick-wall sonics of Chardiet's records can make you more open to probing these enigmas.
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It's particularly smart how Horizon's characters are often selfish about all of this, much more interested to explore their own personal mysteries than the enigmas that led the world to reach this strange state.
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Harold J. Morowitz, a boundlessly curious biophysicist who tackled mind-boggling enigmas ranging from the origin of life to the thermodynamics of pizza, died on March 22 in Falls Church, Va. He was 88.
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"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant," Joyce once said, "and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
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During the war, still in the South of France, he perpetrated his statuesque nudes, simpering lovers, and coarse enigmas, including "Hanged Pierrot," circa 1941, in which a woman appears to lament a dead clown.
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"These lines, which were scratched on the surface of the ground between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500, are among archaeology's greatest enigmas because of their quantity, nature, size and continuity," according to UNESCO's listing.
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Uno de los enigmas del mundo es que las religiones a menudo no se parecen a sus fundadores, dice Nicholas Kristof en este artículo de Opinión que vale la pena releer en Semana Santa.
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The scenes are poetic, almost entirely wordless, and sometimes surreal, but their narrative content is clear; they don't pose abstract enigmas, like "Einstein on the Beach," and Mr. Sharon has more or less stuck to them.
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But, at its core, much of the research in this growing field of "experimental aesthetics" boils down to efforts to solve two age-old enigmas: What is art and why do we like what we like?
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The book covers the etiquette of setting a table, ordering at the sushi bar and sending food back in restaurants: "How to Eat a Lobster: And Other Edible Enigmas Explained," by Ashley Blom (Quirk Books, $12.99).
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Prolific enigmas as they are, Booth and Brown have never been the sort of artists to expressly connect the music they make to external narratives, nor do they tend to explicitly engage in the world around them.
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In 33, filmmaker Lawrence Schiller took a tip from one of the documentary genre's first hoodwinks, Nanook of the North, and applied it to one of the decade's modern enigmas: actor, writer, and newly minted director Dennis Hopper.
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Despite its flaws and will to kitsch, "The Lovers and the Despot" has enough enigmas and chills to merit a look, even if some of its spookier moments involve cinephilia rather than the usual weapons of mass destruction.
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Twitter is one of the great enigmas of life on this planet in the year 22017, capable of being a place of wonder, humor, and connections while also being a place of misogyny, trolling, and the source of crippling fear.
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The geoglyphs created by the Nazca and Paracas cultures are striking reminders of Peru's rich pre-Columbian history and are considered archeological enigmas, as no one knows for sure why they were drawn, or so large and for so long.
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DeLillo's characters long to penetrate the enigmas and intrigues of his conjured worlds; DeLillo's readers devour his sentences, images and narratives for what amounts to something similar: for all that DeLillo — the seeker, the prophet, the mystic, the guide — sees.
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Miss Peregrine's home — its inhabitants, chambers and time-stuttering enigmas — turns out to be a delightful cabinet of curiosities, those wonder rooms in which (once upon a time before Instagram) collectors stashed marvels like body parts, scientific instruments, odds and ends.
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What I love about Waldrop are the enigmas and paradoxes on every page, the belief that language is most beautiful when it slips or falters, and the sense that these linguistic short circuits most often happen in urgent verbal exchange.
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Not just because he played, jammed, filmed videos, or threw parties here, but also because he inspired and influenced artists up and down the country, from rappers to rockers to pops stars to blues singers to internet-age enigmas like Jai Paul.
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Wildebeests are referred to collectively as "an implausibility"The itinerant enigmas, referred to collectively as — no joke — an implausibility of wildebeests, have traveled in a giant African loop that has come to be called the Great Migration for nearly a million years.
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The tiniest computers in the universe and a theory of everything Quantum foam is having something of a moment, not just as a solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem, but also to address other enigmas in physics, like black holes, quantum computers, and dark energy.
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Giles Murray's translation of NEWCOMER (Minotaur, $27.99) presents Higashino's fabled Tokyo Metropolitan Police detective, Kyoichiro Kaga (he of the "razor-sharp mind and bloodhound nature"), with a series of minor enigmas wrapped around a brain-busting central mystery: Who murdered a woman with no enemies?
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In the case of Goldwater and Agnew, Mr. Gold's mission was particularly challenging since both were largely enigmas to the national press corps, and Agnew would hurl barbs ("nattering nabobs of negativism," for one) at the very news media that Mr. Gold was courting.
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How she could leave her daughter is one of many enigmas, including why she destroyed her work, why she ultimately abandoned her art, why David Mayo never met his father or his half-sister Joan, and whether Flora ever had contact again with her daughter.
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While the 37-year-old Federer has mined the most out of his immense skill to capture a record 63 Grand Slam titles, including five U.S. Opens, Kyrgios remains one of the sport's great enigmas, widely viewed as one of tennis's great talents and biggest underachievers.
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But "Part 8" of Twin Peaks: The Return proved not so easily digestible — surging with wordless, experimental imagery, intimations of cosmological enigmas, and a disturbing boldness, the then newest entry into David Lynch and Mark Frost's beloved series was immediately hailed for raising — or least deranging — TV's bar, the peakiest of all.
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As satisfying as it was to have so many enigmas addressed, it's certainly good to have a few left untapped for the third movie in this saga… but would a single line acknowledging their existence and giving the speculation industry something to chew on for the next year be too much to ask?
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Lo que muchos estudios concluyen es que no hay diferencia en la pérdida de peso, siempre y cuando la ingesta de calorías se reduzca en la misma cantidad; sin embargo, todavía hay enigmas que los investigadores no logran resolver, entre ellos, por qué las personas reaccionan de forma diferente a las dietas.
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They're both walking enigmas, and whether it's Negga's quirky badass — happy to take out a car of bad guys one moment, and make nice with a pair of children the next — or the slur-a-minute shenanigans of Cassidy, the pilot wraps leaving the audience wondering just how they're going to fit into everything.
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Credit...Photo Illustration by Tracy Ma/The New York Times; Getty Images (Inigo Philbrick, Sasha Pesko) Inigo Philbrick probably didn't set out to become one of the art world's great enigmas when, at the age of 24, he opened a gallery and consultancy in London, with the financial assistance of one of the industry's better known dealers.
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His new book, "Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship With Harper Lee," is based on their relationship, on his takeaways from visits to the nursing home where she lived in her last years and from letters she sent that give a full sense of a personality that was one of the great literary enigmas of the last half-century.
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Narrated by Aemilia Bassano Lanier, a cross-dressing poetess of Jewish descent living on the periphery of the court of Queen Elizabeth at the turn of the 17th century, Sharratt's historical novel is not just a response to the enigmas surrounding Shakespeare's sonnets but also an absorbing bildungsroman that grapples with strikingly contemporary issues of gender and religious identification, definitions and discrimination.
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" The Harvard professor Joseph Leo Koerner offers a more gratifying exegesis in his eloquent and rich exploration, "Bosch and Bruegel," in which he compares Bosch to his Netherlandish successor Pieter Bruegel the Elder, writing that they both "captivate and overload our sense of sight, entangling the eye in anomalous objects, actors and activities, and ensnaring the mind's eye in enigmas and seeming secrets that arouse but never satisfy interpretive curiosity.
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