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issue 25 > nonfiction

  • Stealth Altruism in Nazi Camps: Reaching Out in the Dark

    by Art Shostak
    Late at night something outside that sounded like children’s cries and moans could barely be heard inside the woman’s barracks, so loud was the wind of the winter storm

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  • How Best to put Horace into English

    by Burton Raffel
    The "Classics," as in the Western world we think of them, are the only partially preserved works written by ancient Greeks and Romans. But the wall surrounding access to these closely studied and highly praised works is a high one, and, these days, a hard climb: simply put, this can be explained in a three words, (1) ancient Greek, and (2) Latin.

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