Hector Vila

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Imagining Amsterdam — Second Movement

In a story such as this, the full view is necessary.

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Education, Fear, and Arrivals From Unexpected Places

I’m often asked what I do for a living.

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The World Trade Centers – Before and Now

What is a memory? What is a memorial?

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Gandolfini, Hoffman, Williams, James Foley, Ferguson, Iraq, Syria & ISIS: The World According to…

The most disconcerting lines in modern fiction, the opening of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, perfectly capture our condition, today; it…

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The Decision II: LeBron James and the New Owners

“Who owns this body, this body of work?” asks David Shields in his great book, Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine.

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The Face of Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman belongs to our moment in cinema when the human face can cause such consternation that, instead of “plung[ing] audiences into…

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How Fútbol (not soccer) Explains the World — If not, How it Explains Inmigración En EEUU (USA)

When John Oliver took on the broken immigration system on his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, calling it the universal crazy maker and saying…

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