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Good Grief

From a symposium on the topic of loss, which was published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Threepenny Review. The cult of loss has many enthusiastic members. And as…

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Ghost Protocol

From Lament for Julia, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. I did not love her at first; not for a long time. She did not…

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Dashiell, Hamming

From similes used in twentieth-century noir books and films, compiled in The Mysterious Romance of Murder, which was published last May by Cornell University Press. Impressive as an adoring moll…

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Stimulus Package

From the minutes of a meeting of the Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Board held on March 2. ashley cream: Good evening. I am here as a concerned citizen and…

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Groan Banking

From a list of queries and complaints received by the New York City 311 line since 2003, released in March to commemorate its twentieth anniversary. Can you check if my…

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Not

From Phantom Pain Wings, which was published last month by New Directions. Translated from the Korean. I don’t walk without music I don’t wear a slip without lace There’s a…

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New Books

Human Lock, by Vojtěch Kovařík. Courtesy the artist and Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo, Brussels, New York City The title of Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel, Kairos (New Directions, $25.95), refers…

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No Biggie

From the witness testimony of NCIS special agent John C. Little, given in North Carolina in August 2021 during the detention hearing of Joseph Maurino, a New Jersey national guardsman…

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The Anatomy of Panic

A personal history of anxiety

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Where Tomorrow Meets Today

“Let me persuade you to come to the place where tomorrow meets today,” a voice-over invites near the beginning of Design for Dreaming, a General Motors promotional film from 1956.…

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Letters

Speech Acts In support of his claim that the left is suppressing free speech [“A Climate of Fear,” Revision, March], Russell Jacoby dredges up some old news, including the PEN/Charlie…

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Voluntarily and For Pay

I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100…

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The Age of the Crisis of Work

What is the sound of quiet quitting?

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The Conversion of the Jews

They lived in narrow streets and lanes obscure,      Ghetto and Judenstrass, in murk and mire; Taught in the school of patience to endure      The life of anguish and the death…

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Book of Lies

From Orphan Bachelors, which will be published this month by Grove Press. Our father’s elder sister arrived with her husband in 1921. We called her Big Aunt. Big Uncle was…

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Compose Yourself

From Easily Slip into Another World, which will be published this month by Knopf. Toward the end of July 1971, I go to see Duke Ellington with his orchestra. This…

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Dirty Pop

From “Chains or Whips? The Cruel Decade and its Aftermath,” which was published in February by The White Review. The decade of cruelty started with low-rise jeans. Of course, no…

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Grace Under Fire

From Ordinary Notes, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. At Amiri Baraka’s funeral service, livestreamed from Newark Symphony Hall, a beautiful number and range of people…

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Fatal Attraction

From Tomás Nevinson, which will be published this month by Knopf. Translated from the Spanish. I still didn’t have all the facts—I was waiting for the full reports, which would…

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Benjamin Glutton

From explanations given by centenarians for their longevity, followed by their ages at the time the advice was reported. Smoke fifteen cigarettes a day, 100 Drink one glass of Coors…

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Genius Sidebar

From a hearing held in February to discuss the bail conditions of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Prosecutors had asked Judge Lewis Kaplan to place…

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New Books

The novel form is capacious and elastic, in some instances deployed like a magnifying glass on a water droplet, and in others as a panoramic lens to encompass a vast…

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We Started the Fire

The risks of prescribed burns in a warming climate

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Time Is a Violent Stream

On losing a father and finding Stoicism

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