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A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. The darkest moment of the Democratic defeat on November 5 must have been the ...

Such a terrible schemozzle you caused that I couldn’t take you back after that.” The scandal, which became known as the ...

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From an 1851 “list of imitation book-backs” sent by Charles Dickens to a London bookbinder, who fabricated mock books with the fake titles. The New York Public Library re-created part… ...