The reverential treatment accorded to climate modelers by the media, policymakers, and the public is one of the great mysteries of modern life.

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And the way the skinny neck disappeared between the animal's breastplate and shell-a squirming, live thing slipping hidden into dead stony stuff-it seemed suddenly like the Mystery of Mysteries, the very source of Life .

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Meanwhile, Breillat frames the legend with scenes of a pair of modern girls (Marilou Lopes-Benites and Lola Giovanetti) who read it aloud, infusing the rational openness and practical troubles of French daily life with the dark mysteries of distant times.

NEWYORKER: Bluebeard

His intricately ambiguous drama evokes the fearsome mysteries beneath the surface of life and the diverting illusions that its masterminds, human or divine, project.

NEWYORKER: Paris Belongs to Us

So are revelations about Britain's dysfunctional royal family and popular works by cosmologists and evolutionary biologists that purport to solve the mysteries of creation and of the meaning of life.

ECONOMIST: What the world is reading

Soon bilked of her home, her money, and, above all, her sense of self, Kris sets out to uncover the mysteries of her possession and to put her life back together.

NEWYORKER: Upstream Color