The novelist Yiyun Li, known for her powerful distillations of personal grief, makes art from subverted expectations.
Tag: Grief (Emotion)
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A Welsh Village Embraces Its Bond With the Queen
A disaster at Aberfan, a small Welsh community, almost 60 years ago forged an unusual link between the community and the queen. The atmosphere there today — quiet grief coupled with brief flashes of dissent — encapsulates the national mood.
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What Is the Future of the British Monarchy?
Readers discuss whether it is, in one writer’s words, “time to wind up the affairs of ‘the firm.’” Also: Rudy Giuliani; Navy SEALs; the nursing shortage.
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Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa
Twenty years ago, a grass court emerged from the surrounding cornfields in Charles City. Its story is colored by exacting standards, profound loss and, ultimately, rebirth.