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Rachel Syme

Rachel Syme is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has covered Hollywood, style, and other cultural subjects since 2012. She is the author of “ Syme’s Letter Writer,” about the joys of handwritten correspondence.

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How We Lie to Ourselves About History
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“You’re Wrong About” debunks the stories of the past. But its real subject isn’t so much facts as the process by which we absorb them, Rachel Syme writes.