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Archive: 2021

Findings

“Parcel,” “Christmas Tree Topper,” and “Father Christmas Mask,” photographs by Martti Jämsä from the Objets trouvés series. Jämsä’s work is on view at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, in Helsinki. Courtesy the…

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Her Kind

On losing and finding my mind

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Stopping Distance

grief and time Grief takes as long as it wants, in various formations, and doesn’t follow rules the way we’d like to think it does. And for God’s sake, it…

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A Posthumous Shock

How everything became trauma

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To Spite His Face

What happened to Cecil Rhodes’s nose?

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The Odor of Things

Solving the mysteries of scent

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New Books

Haile Selassie I © Chronicle/Alamy If you’ve considered accidental divinity—mortal men being worshipped as gods—you’ve probably thought it a rare phenomenon, something relegated to a distant past. But as Anna…

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Letters

That’s Baseball, Suzyn Will Bardenwerper’s portrait of baseball’s fading farm system [“Minor Threat,” Letter from Pulaski, October] brought me back to summer evenings in the Fifties, watching minor-league games in…

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The Licentiate’s Children

From a speech published in the book El arte de la distorsión. Vásquez is the author, most recently, of the story collection Songs for the Flames. Translated from the Spanish.…

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Divine Logic

Kurt Gödel’s last proof

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Built to Spill

From a conversation about Afghanistan between the Iranian writers Salar Abdoh and Mohammad Hossein Jafarian, which was published in September by Guernica. salar abdoh: Do you think that America was…

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Buy the Numbers

From Trapped in the Present Tense, which will be published next month by Counterpoint Press. It’s possible to construct a statistical mosaic of American life out of the 332 million…

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Kids Say the Darndest Things

From a conversation between Olaf Scholz and two eleven-year-olds, Pauline and Romeo, who were interviewing candidates for chancellor of Germany. The exchange aired in September on Late Night Berlin. Scholz…

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Killing Time

From an essay that appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of The Threepenny Review. Yesterday, while on extended hold with an appliance store, I deleted dead people from my Contacts.…

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Naked As We Came

From Fight Night, a novel, which was published in October by Bloomsbury. Almost every day Grandma gets a call about someone she knows being dead. You can tell because she…

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Writing Wrongs

From prompts in 642 Things to Write About, a book distributed to seniors at Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio. In September, after parents complained that the book asked students…

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Claus and Effect

From the 2021 Red Suit Survey, which polled hundreds of professional Santas in the United States. What made you decide to be a Santa? I had the look I had…

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Angel

From Issue 14 of Lana Turner. When I was almost a woman the men in the radio called someone I thought might be me an angel and a baby. I…

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Still Life

By an artist and inmate on death row at San Quentin State Prison in California. Spencer created this replica of his cell out of card stock and sold it on…

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The Space Coast

We have perhaps created too much history too quickly—more than we can cope with. We know the cycles: birth, growth, glory, degeneration. Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first…

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Rich Image, Poor Image

After New York City experienced record rainfall this summer, my basement flooded. Water destroyed boxes of books and manuscripts, sitting several inches deep in a plastic crate full of photographs.…

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Findings

Zenith (V), a cyanotype by Ala Ebtekar, whose work was on view last month at Haines Gallery, in San Francisco. Courtesy the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco Researchers identified…

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Letters

Have You Heard? I felt torn reading Joseph Bernstein’s essay [“Bad News,” Report, September]. Bernstein is correct to note that the anti-disinformation industry is largely composed of elites alarmed by…

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January

The day Aaron finished rehab, Cassie picked him up and drove him to New York City. Though they lived in Boston, and the facility was north, in New Hampshire, it…

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Ad Astra

The coming battle over space

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