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August 2021

September 1996 “The Talibans are here.” “The following day, Kabul was overrun by trucks. Armed bearded men in black turbans sat in their beds. From each truck, a loudspeaker blared announcements, first in Farsi, then Pashto. The message was also written in…

“Alcestis is the heroine of a greek myth. A love story of the saddest kind. Alcestis willingly sacrifices her life for that of her husband, Admetus, dying in his place when no one else will. An unsettling myth of self-sacrifice, it…