What happens when we talk to animals?

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for/after BPK Across the street from the men in bars of booze, Music, and confinement, a dog walked into a diner To find diners eating, a cat eating, a mouse…

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Atlanta in ruins. Originally published in the October 1865 issue of Harper’s Magazine “You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine…

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The democratic designs of J.B.S. Haldane

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The East, the West, and the meaning of home

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The saleswoman was waiting for them as they entered the store. She had severely dyed hair and a clipboard clutched tightly to her chest. Josh thought it was possibly her…

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“Asthand,” by Nina Röder, from Bath in Brilliant Green, which was published in 2018 by Kehrer Verlag © The artist. Courtesy Galerie Burster, Berlin A surprising number of novelists are…

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The history of the black church

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Allan Gurganus’s Southern utopias

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A Modest Proposal In Andrew Cockburn’s recent essay [“Hard Times,” Letter from Washington, February], I was quoted as calling for a New Deal 2.0. I would like to elaborate here…

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From a certain angle, Donald Trump’s presidency may not have moved the United States in entirely the wrong direction. One of the few areas to benefit from his stewardship, the…

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From On Violence and On Violence Against Women, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The times we live in oblige any feminist to reckon with…

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From Finding the Raga, which was published last month by New York Review Books. 1. What is a raga? To answer this question we must first acquire a sense of…

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From instructions for a remote math test at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario in October 2020. Complete the practice quiz. After the practice quiz, start the setup test. Complete the…

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From a conversation with Werner Herzog, conducted by Ian Michna for Jenkem, a skateboarding magazine. ian michna: Can you hear me? werner herzog: I can see you. ian michna: You…

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From the essay “Dear Friends,” which was published in the Winter 2021 issue of The Sewanee Review. i have a friend who has never read a single word I have…

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From “Inside Stories,” an essay published in the Winter 2021 issue of Five Points. I used to visit an elderly woman who lived in a single room in an apartment…

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From The Killing Hills, which will be published in June by Grove Press. A few miles down the blacktop, Mick slowed for a man walking, then steered around him and…

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From a conversation on Facebook that was published in a January opinion of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The court suspended Winston Sitton from practicing law for four years for making…

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From actions taken during legislative sessions by members of Taiwan’s parliament between 2001 and 2021. Tore up proposals Unplugged loudspeakers to prevent the passage of bills Sprayed members of the…

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From reviews of superhero movies published between 2016 and 2020. Spider-Man 2 is a superhero movie for people who don’t watch superhero movies Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a…

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From the subject lines of fund-raising emails sent out during the 2020 campaign season. Hey So . . . I need to be up-front I see you, I love you I’m blown away…

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From a complaint filed against the City of Boston in January by the Satanic Temple. The Constitution permits legislative prayers, but the prayer-selection process must be nondiscriminatory. Boston affords its…

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From a manuscript in progress. Let they who thought all that up enjoy more of that while I take care of this customer who may not know I am not…

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Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema

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I can’t remember exactly when the cinematic past became palpable for me. It was probably sometime in the late Fifties or early Sixties, when the mix of television screenings, museum…

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