FROM THE MAGAZINE

June 2021

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Thelonious Monk deserves the last note

The mural painted on my envisioned Thelonious Monk Alley would feature images of little Thelonious in his fireman’s cap, surrounded by firemen, and the adult Thelonious at the piano

By Bill Kauffman

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High Life

The lost magic of Palm Beach

Its beautiful Hispanic architectural marvels are gradually being torn down

By Taki

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Why I’m investing in sheep

As we emerge from the pandemic, I’m going long on Dorpers

By Aidan Hartley

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The problem with progressives

Progressives claim to abhor the concept of class, yet no group in this country is as conscious of it as they are

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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The Latin ‘ictus’

Ictus can as easily be applied to the stress on a syllable in poetry

By Dot Wordsworth

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Place

The romantic return of Florence’s wine windows

Italians, normally so keen to hug and kiss each other, have been forced into social distancing, and it has given the wine windows a new lease of life

By Henry Jeffreys

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Style

Basket case

My tangled web of basket weavers

By Calla Jones Corner

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Low Life

The beauty of French nurses

Whereas the older nurse was effortlessly capable of subjectivity, objectivity, sympathy and imagination, the younger woman was limited to the first category only

By Jeremy Clarke

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Virgil understood the great power of nature

It rapidly becomes clear that farming is no joyride

By Peter Jones

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