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Tischler’s Take: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ at Oak Hill Cemetery
“Lincoln in the Bardo” will confound you, will move you and make you feel drugged at times, will challenge your conceptions of what a novel should be — but also…
July 27, 2017
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‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ novel has people flocking to a Georgetown cemetery
There are a lot of dead people in Oak Hill Cemetery. Lately, there’s an increasing number of live people there, too. Nearly every day over the past month, one or two…
April 17, 2017
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George Saunders Gets Inside Lincoln’s Head
Seekers of Presidential frisson cherish the synchronous deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, on July 4, 1826, a temporal thrill doubled by the date’s being the fiftieth anniversary of the…
February 13, 2017
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Five Historic Cemeteries
The Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland, seems an unlikely spot for a vocabulary lesson, especially after dark. B Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C., is the burial spot for many…
October 24, 2016