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Under plans that will be in the Conservative manifesto all 18-year-olds would have to do paid military service for a year or unpaid community work one weekend a month.

A few weeks ago I reread “The Emigrants,” W.G. Sebald’s sublime 1992 requiem of four men driven, in the face of totalitarianism, from C

The Gloopy Glory of Frank Auerbach’s Portraits The artist’s industrious paintings and drawings, made across four decades, are now on view at Luhring Augustine. Frank Auerbach’s “Reclining Head of Julia II” (2015). The artist is the last surviving member of a pathfinding generation of postwar British figurative painters.Credit...Courtesy the artist and Marlborough Fine Art, London and Luhring Augustine, New York Jan. 21, 2021 A few weeks ago I reread “The Emigran...