On suicide and Moby-Dick

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Justine was twenty-one years old that spring, Jeffers, the age at which a person begins to show her true colors, and in many ways she was revealing herself to be…

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On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

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The death penalty under Trump and the execution of Dustin Higgs

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How America enables corruption in Honduras

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each letter Everyone crowded in that movie theater you found a seat to my left some thirty years later saying little, facing the screen while I use my hair to…

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Among those people in New York who care about newspapers and who like to think of their content as something more than amusement, it has become increasingly difficult to find…

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Proving you’re safe to travel

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What exactly does the Endangered Species Act protect?

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Plane Grid, by Kim Frohsin © The artist. Courtesy Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, California “I am someone who can live (within reason) anywhere,” writes Aminatta Forna in her new book…

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The new internet novels

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On the secret of Faulkner's literary form

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In 1829, Agathon-Jean-Francois, Baron Fain, wrote a memoir of his time serving as secretary to the emperor Napoleon. A reader searching for details about great battles or power struggles will…

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The Divine Breath, The Grail, and The Light of the Soul, c. 1930, by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, from the Meditation Drawing Screenprints series © The Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. Courtesy The…

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Crossing the Streams The moment cinephilia is tied to personal nostalgia, as it is in Martin Scorsese’s essay [“Il Maestro,” March], intellectual distinctions become tenuous. Scorsese laments the devaluing of…

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From “The Assistant’s Loft,” an essay from a revised edition of the anthology Goodbye to All That, which was published last month by Seal Press. She had a name, but…

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From a list compiled by the Leibniz Institute for the German Language of more than a thousand German words that have been coined since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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From extracts of official CIA documents that the agency cited in a report asking officers to use clearer and more concise language. The report was released in November. In view…

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From a virtual Sacramento Superior Court hearing held on February 25. clerk: Hello, Mr. Green? scott green: Yes. clerk: Hi. Are you available for trial? It kinda looks like you…

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From “The Anti-Extinction Engine,” which appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of The Yale Review. In Good Morning Revolution—­a volume of Langston Hughes’s contributions to revolutionary magazines—­there is a small…

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From “Mookie and Me,” a short story, which was published in the Winter 2020 issue of The Missouri Review. The bleachers at this little alternative college are full of kids…

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From the lyrics to a rap performed by Daniel Kritenbrink, the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, in a music video he released in February for Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year.…

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From images in “From the Bottlecap to the Bottleneck: Frequent Esophageal Impaction of Bottlecaps Among Young Males in a Small University Town,” by Mattis Bertlich et al., which was published…

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From the poetry collection A Better Place Is Hard to Find, which was published in October 2020 by The Song Cave. I thought I saw a bee’s Nest made of…

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From public comments sent to government officials in Atascadero, California, where a ten-foot, two-hundred-pound monolith appeared in December and was torn down by a Christian group a day later. The…

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From reports of deaths that have resulted from attempted pranks and stunts on social media since 2018. Overdosed on Benadryl while attempting to hallucinate Asphyxiated while attempting to pass out…

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Are we living through another antebellum era?

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