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Margaret A. Thornton
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Senior correspondent covering culture, arts & letters. Formerly of The Illustrated Weekly and Meridian Review. Believer in the long-form sentence.

NEW YORK, NY
JOINED SEPT. 2019
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47 ARTICLES
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CULTURE · SEPT 14, 2024
The Architecture of Silence in the Modern City
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LETTERS & ARTS · AUG 28, 2024
On the Disappearance of the Literary Café

The places where writers once gathered to argue and compose have vanished from our cities without ceremony...

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POLITICS · AUG 10, 2024
What Remains of the Public Square

Democracy's visible form has always required a place of assembly. Now we must ask what that place has become...

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The Last Editor of Fleet Street
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Five Books Worth Your Winter
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Writing the Difficult Truth
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Letters from Palermo's Old Quarter
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Cinema's New Silence
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Readership in Decline?
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The Vanishing Trades

A six-part investigation into crafts and professions disappearing from our cities.

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Notes From the Margin

Monthly essays on language, translation, and the spaces between meaning.

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