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    Should We Love Our Country?

    Fourth of July ruminations on the nation-state and the state of the nation

    byPaul Berman
  • Jean-Pierre Melville
    Jean-Pierre Melville
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    Double Exposure: Jean-Pierre Melville

    The ambiguities and darkness of Nazi-occupied France propelled him to flee his country, take a new name, fight in the Resistance, and then invent film noir. But the past continued to haunt him.

    byAdrien Bosc
  • (Collage Tablet Magazine; original photo Museum of Photographic Arts; white whale Rockwell Kent. )
    (Collage Tablet Magazine; original photo Museum of Photographic Arts; white whale Rockwell Kent. )
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    Melville in Jerusalem

    The Moby-Dick author sought spiritual connection on an 1857 Holy Land trip. He found dust and rocks instead.

    byDavid Sugarman
  • The first edition of the King James Bible, 1611.(Library of Congress)
    The first edition of the King James Bible, 1611.(Library of Congress)
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    Heirs to the Throne

    In a new book, Robert Alter examines the debt American literature owes to the King James Bible

    byAdam Kirsch
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