The former Yugoslavia’s enigmatic memorial architecture

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Bitter Pill Naomi Jackson’s essay [“A Litany for Survival,” Memoir, September] humanizes the disconcerting but clear evidence of health disparities based on race. These statistics, established in the medical literature…

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Morality is often reduced to choices, and imperfect choices at that. This is the human condition; to accept it and do the best we can is a brave thing, and…

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From Subprime Attention Crisis, published last month by FSGO x Logic. Though we’ve mostly forgotten this now, the idea that the internet would give rise to some of the largest…

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From “Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases—Terrestrial or cosmic?,” which was published in July by Advances in Genetics. Claims that certain pathogens have extraterrestrial origins have been…

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From A Libertarian Walks into a Bear, which was published in September by PublicAffairs. When Chris Weathersbee, then in his sixties, moved onto the property in Corinth, Vermont, in 1999,…

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From descriptions of police violence filmed in the United States between May 29 and June 7. Compiled by ProPublica. A protester holds up her phone. The officer pepper-sprays her twice,…

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From remarks made in July by Russ Diamond, a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. I feel that I must personally respond to the incidents of hate and intolerance…

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From the dissenting opinion of the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, issued in July in response to the court’s decision to decline to review the case of Fair…

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From complaints received by the American Battle Monuments Commission between 2014 and 2019 that were acquired by GovernmentAttic.org through a Freedom of Information Act request. The commission manages twenty-six American…

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From Pigeons on the Grass, a novel, which was published last month by New Directions. Koeppen (1906–96) was a German novelist who was awarded the Büchner Prize in 1962. Translated…

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From a lawsuit filed by Devin Nunes, a U.S. representative from California, against the Twitter user Devin Nunes’ Mom, whose identity is unknown. Nunes has denied the claims made by…

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From Rough Song, a collection of poetry, which was published last month by The Song Cave. Varela (1926–2009) was a Peruvian poet and the first woman to win the Federico…

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From a listing posted on August 12 by House of Brokers Realty, Inc., for a home in Fayette, Missouri. 203 east morrison street…

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From a study published in Communications Biology in August by researchers at the University of New South Wales and the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust. Scientists believe eye­like body patterns evolved…

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8 From a study published this summer by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which researchers asked a sixty-year-old man who has category-specific metamorphopsia—which has rendered him…

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From a speech delivered by Darryl Daniels, the sheriff of Clay County, Florida. A video of the speech was posted on the department’s Facebook page in June. Hey, folks. Me…

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From news reports of behaviors by wild turkeys across the United States between 2015 and 2019. Tearing up gardens Breaking off tree branches Chasing dogs Blocking traffic by gathering into…

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The difference between protest and reform

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Blick auf den Tiergarten mit weißen Kugeln (Parkbild), by Max Beckmann © akg-images When we try to get at a work of art, words of criticism fail worse than anything—they…

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The difficult pleasures of William Gaddis

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On the perils of novelizing one’s life

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“you certainly have the right to your thoughts in this minefield”   All that’s dammed-up in your head, hammered by the whitewater current of your knowing better— the daily small…

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Secret powers and the presidency

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Then she suggested I make a list of all the things I’m grateful for. No entry is too small or mundane: access to clean water, fast internet, the weeping habit…

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The Dogman snuck back from the bar with two Kölsches and stuck one in front of me. An old gesture. Old for us, old for history. “I quit drinking,” I…

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