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Bella Freud. Photograph by Felicity McCabe for The New Yorker

Rebecca Mead

A staff writer who has contributed reporting and criticism since 1997.

Sometimes when interviewing a subject, particularly a well-known one who has a new project to promote, I’m aware that I’m hearing a narrative that person has told

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