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  • A Popular Front demonstration in Paris, 1936.(Bibliothèque nationale de France)
    A Popular Front demonstration in Paris, 1936.(Bibliothèque nationale de France)
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    Occupy Paris

    The economic and social upheavals that rocked France and its Jewish prime minister 75 years ago bear an uncanny resemblance to Occupy Wall Street

    byRobert Zaretsky
  • (Collage Tablet Magaine. Image sources: Alfred Kazin, 1962: Walter Daran/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images; Emily Dickinson: Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database ; Ralph Waldo Emerson: Library of Congress; Bed: George Eastman House; New York City: Berenice Abbot/New York Public Library.)
    (Collage Tablet Magaine. Image sources: Alfred Kazin, 1962: Walter Daran/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images; Emily Dickinson: Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database ; Ralph Waldo Emerson: Library of Congress; Bed: George Eastman House; New York City: Berenice Abbot/New York Public Library.)
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    The Non-Belonger

    Alfred Kazin brought out the Jew in Emerson, the mystic in sex, and the terrible beauty in community. There’s no better guide for the “social me” age.

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Simone Weil, 1942; an aircraft factory, 1940.(Collage Abigail Miller/Tablet Magazine; photos: American Weil Society and San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives)
    Simone Weil, 1942; an aircraft factory, 1940.(Collage Abigail Miller/Tablet Magazine; photos: American Weil Society and San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives)
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    Force of Life

    As the great French intellectual Simone Weil understood, modern life is all about work and war. Memorial Day and Labor Day, then, are perfect opportunities to take stock of our modern condition.

    byRobert Zaretsky
  • Edward Hirsch.(© Evin Thayer)
    Edward Hirsch.(© Evin Thayer)
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    The Earthly Dreamer

    Poet Edward Hirsch and the dignity of everyday existence

    byDavid Kaufmann
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