Eating Alone in China
Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker
Paul Cézanne Revered the Old Masters, yet Influenced Waves of Modernists
Nancy Locke, Humanities
Among the Disrupted
Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times
Metastasis
David Baker, The Poetry Foundation
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