The New York Times Magazine - 04.08.2019

21 It’s not spicy hot but has a magnifi cent warmth that spreads across your chest in a slow build. Jerk Chicken Time: 1 hour, p ...

Javier Marías, Spain’s most celebrated living writer, has spent his career chronicling his country’s long- deferred reckoning wi ...

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eneralissimo Francisco Franco, one of the few Fas- cist dictators to die peacefully in his bed, imposed himself on Spain for so ...

to be a detailed account. ‘‘ ‘You cannot torment us for 12 hours, from noon to midnight. We aren’t able to do anything — to work ...

love you?’’), Juan draws out the participants’ suppressed authoritarian long- ings. Europe’s favorable self-image notwithstandin ...

might have in those who committed them, rather than creating curiosity and provoking it.’’ To choose not to know, to deny evil i ...

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Photographs by Katy Grannan Megafire By Jon Mooallem For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of ...

30 8.4.19 he fi re was already growing at a rate of one football fi eld per sec- ond when Tamra Fisher woke up on the edge of Pa ...

The New York Times Magazine 31 with her while it happened. Her phone created the illusion of an audience; it was the best she co ...

32 Old Town Plaza in Paradise, on Clark Road, days after the fire. Opening pages: The west side of Paradise, overlooking the wes ...

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34 8.4.19 beginning to catch up with him. What sounded to Fisher like extraordinary calmness was actually extraordinary focus: H ...

The New York Times Magazine 35 escaped. Fully prioritizing evacuation could mean ripping them apart. Paradise evolved without an ...

An area near downtown Paradise, in November 2018. ...

37 allowing a wire to spring free. The wire fl apped against the skeletal metal tower, throwing sparks into the wind, most likel ...

‘‘It was pretty much complete chaos,’’ Joe Kenne- dy said. Kennedy is a Cal Fire heavy- equipment operator based in Nevada City, ...

The New York Times Magazine 39 part of Paradise that was on fi re was the part of Paradise we were looking at.’’ And, as happene ...

40 he decided, they would extinguish it quickly and take off , saving the civilians aboard by pushing other cars out of the way ...