This text includes content quoted or adapted from actual events, essays, and other sources. For “The Spy and the Cleric,” see Marc Bennetts, “Russian State TV Warns ‘Traitors’ Not to Settle in England,” The Guardian, March 9, 2018 →; Mark Duell, “Kremlin Double Agent ‘Boasted to Taxi Drivers “I’m a Russian Spy,” Kissed a Black Wolf Ring and Always Insisted on Being Collected Away from His Home,’” Daily Mail, March 7, 2018 →; Nicole Pope, “An Ottoman Empire of the Mind,” January 6, 1998 →, and “From ‘Parallel State’ to ‘Terrorist Organization’: Dissecting Erdoğan’s Labeling of Gülen,” Journal of Middle Eastern Politics & Policy, November 15, 2016 →. For “The Pagan,” see Jody Joy, “Looking Death in the Face,” in Regarding the Dead: Human Remains in the British Museum, ed. Alexandra Fletcher, Daniel Antoine, and J. D. Hill (British Museum, 2014), 10–19; “Druid Calls for Reburial of Stonehenge Human Remains,” BBC News, November 1, 2015 →; “Human Remains to Stay in Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury,” Rescue – The British Archaeological Trust, June 19, 2010 →; and “Ceremonia Delegacion Rapa Nui Frente a Moai Hoa Hakananai’a,” December 12, 2018, video →. For “The Father,” see Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Doubleday, 2021); Sandi Bachom, “Artist NAN GOLDIN Stages #SacklerPAIN Opioid Protest Die-In @ Met Museum Sackler Wing 3/10/18,” March 10, 2018, video →; and Elizabeth A. Harris, “The Met Will Turn Down Sackler Money Amid Fury Over the Opioid Crisis,” New York Times, May 15, 2019 →. The images in this text are watercolors by the author, respectively titled The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 131 and The British Museum, Room 50.
