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As a child, he discovered that his father — and therefore he and his siblings — had been passing for white. For the rest of his life, he identified as Black. By Richard Sandomir In “Presence,” the ...

June 3, 2026 • In 'My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,' the narrator, a writer, actually spends one month trying to understand Stein's genius, how she invented herself, and her relationship with ...