Category: Culture
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A View of Milan Under Quarantine
Since the Italian government ordered a lockdown of the northern regions, more than three weeks ago, which soon expanded to the rest of the country, Milan has been transformed, its normally teeming streets and piazze deserted.
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The Wistful Yet Energizing Dance Music of RÜFÜS DU SOL
On the trio’s third album, “Solace,” its sound has become heavier, deeper, and even more alluring.
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“The Seventh Cross,” A Wrenching Novel About the Third Reich
In this story of the heart-pounding escape of seven political prisoners from a fictional concentration camp, Anna Seghers demonstrates how some find the courage to do what is moral, even when it isn’t lawful.
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The Brain-Tingling Sounds of ASMR
The shushing sound of voices whispering, or clothes rustling—and then a tingling feeling begins on the scalp, and spreads down into the neck, shoulders, and limbs, and along with it comes a state of calm, or even euphoria. This is how people who experience autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, describe the peculiar phenomenon.
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The Sombre Thrills of “Babylon Berlin”
The German TV series portrays the twilight of the Weimar Republic as a spectacle of contrasts, where cosmopolitanism exists alongside outright bigotry and citizens cling either to a tenuous status quo or to dreams of revolution.
Cameron Hood 