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I. The morning of December the eighth arrived at the FMP office the way certain mornings arrive in the aftermath of events that have not yet been fully absorbed: with…

I. The Library of Congress was not a building so much as a declaration. Elias had passed it many times during his years in Washington without going in, in the…

I. The letter took him four drafts. He was not generally a man who revised. His professional correspondence—the memos and notices and brief cover letters that circulated through Barfield &…

The first thing you noticed about Elias Thorne, if you noticed him at all, was the pencil. He kept it behind his right ear with the practiced unconsciousness of a…