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In ‘Nerve,’ Facing Up to Fears With an Assist From Science

Eva Holland grew up “carrying, as most of us do, a quiver of assorted fears,” she writes in her new book, “Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear.” But chief among them was the fear of losing her mother. She felt confident that such a loss could be …

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Beauty in radishes: Parisian tells lockdown story in watercolor

Agnes Goyet, a Parisian artist who documented life in lockdown in a journal during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, paints on paper with watercolours in her apartment in Paris, France, April 18, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier PARIS (Reuters) – From a bunch of radishes to a sleeping cat, Parisian Agnes Goyet …

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From Missing Persons to Mistaken Identities, Books About Seeing and Being Seen

There are scores of novels about World War II, but far fewer about what happened next. When we meet Zofia Lederman in August 1945 in Monica Hesse’s THEY WENT LEFT (Little, Brown, 364 pp., $17.99; ages 14 and up), she has spent her adolescence surviving the Birkenau and Gross-Rosen concentration …

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Austrian museums, libraries can reopen from mid-May as lockdown eases

Austrian Vice-Chancellor Werner Kogler attends a news conference during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Vienna, Austria, April 17, 2020. Helmut Fohringer/Pool via REUTERS VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrian cultural spaces including museums and libraries can reopen from mid-May as part of a gradual loosening of the coronavirus lockdown, the government …

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Australian nude drawing classes move online amid coronavirus

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian life model Leigh Pitchford casually poses with a towel partly draped over his naked body, ready to be sketched by a group of art students in Sydney. Model Leigh Pitchford poses for art students drawing his figure over a Zoom internet livestream class due to social …

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Rams GM Snead on Gurley, Matthews payments: ‘They’ll get their money’

FILE PHOTO: NFL Football – Super Bowl LIII – New England Patriots v Los Angeles Rams – Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. – February 3, 2019. Los Angeles Rams’ Todd Gurley II looks on during the match. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque General manager Les Snead and the Los Angeles Rams plan to …

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Mime artist breaks silence to give coronavirus health tips in Cairo

Egyptian clown Ahmed Naser, prepares for making an entertainment performance to courage children to put on face masks as a preventive measure amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Darb Al-Ban district at Islamic Cairo, Egypt April 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany CAIRO (Reuters) – …

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Factbox: Countries pondering an easing of coronavirus curbs

(Reuters) – Various countries around the world are wondering when and how to ease coronavirus lockdowns, though the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that should be done slowly and only when there is capacity to isolate cases and trace contacts. FILE PHOTO: People work on a construction site at …

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Ukrainian artists live-stream from their studios during lockdown

Ukrainian contemporary artists, brothers Nikita and Egor Zigura work in their workroom during an online auction in Kiev, Ukraine, April 13, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian brothers Nikita and Egor Zigura work on their sculpture of a giant fingerprint as art enthusiasts look on via a live-streaming internet …

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A Town Is Besieged by Children, Foreign and Violent

A LUMINOUS REPUBLIC By Andrés Barba “When I’m asked about the 32 children who lost their lives in San Cristóbal, my response varies depending on the age of my interlocutor,” explains the narrator in the first sentence of the novel “A Luminous Republic,” by the Spanish writer Andrés Barba. Containing …

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