From the 9/11-themed menu of The Clubhouse, a restaurant in Stafford County, Virginia. The menu was discontinued in September. pentagon pie: Chocolate silk, $4 freedom flounder: Grilled filet of sole…

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Pearl, by Gail Spaien © The artist. Courtesy Nancy Margolis Gallery “Animals are in trouble all over the world.” So begins Justice for Animals (Simon and Schuster, $28.99), a call to…

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How not to become an anarchist

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My father told me this story. He said it happened one Christmas Eve many years ago. A boy was walking alone alongside a highway and saw the lights of the…

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Audiophilia and its discontents

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The house museums of New Orleans

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The sense of an ending

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From “Sentience and Sensibility,” which was published in the September/October issue of The Baffler. It was all too easy to dismiss the Washington Post story about Blake Lemoine—the Google engineer…

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From his memoir Come Back in September, which was published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1. My boss, Fran, was hoping to publish Sterling Brown’s collected poems. She…

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From unsolicited letters sent to Aileen Cannon, a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida, after she announced that she would appoint a special master to review documents removed…

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From an interview with the critic and historian Greg Tate, conducted for Ain’t But a Few of Us, a collection of conversations with black jazz critics, edited by Willard Jenkins,…

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From “Rose-Colored Glasses,” which was published in the Winter 2022 issue of Raritan. Long gray hair shredded by the cold demiwind funneling up through the village, curving up and around…

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From a conversation between Martha Stewart and Chelsea Handler, which took place in July on Handler’s podcast Dear Chelsea. chelsea handler: What’s going on in your love life? martha stewart:…

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From headlines published in the Opinion section of the New York Times since 2011. I’m a New York City Liberal I’m a Democrat and a Feminist I Work for Midwestern…

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From The Writing of an Hour, a poetry collection, which was published in March by Wesleyan University Press. A bouquet of twigs and moss and a hard orange burst of…

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Photographs of Return to Origin, a mixed-media artwork by RaMell Ross, which was exhibited earlier this year at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in New Orleans. In October 2021,…

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See the solution to last month’s puzzle.

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Notes from the Marilyn Appreciation Society

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The trials of an almost candidate

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Walter Karp’s enduring view of the establishment

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A father’s guide to Nabokov’s Berlin

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As a small child, I would sometimes sit with my parents in our suburban London living room and watch the six o’clock news on the BBC. One evening, I saw…

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“Final Shot,” a photograph by Evan Robidoux, whose work was on view in September at Pace Gallery, in New York City © The artist. Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York City…

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A Shock to the System “Can a brain implant treat drug addiction?” This is the question Zachary Siegel poses in his recent article, featuring four individuals addicted to opioids [“A…

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grief (disarmament) You’re a terrible witness. Wore stage outfits to testimony and upon returning home in search of his remains, you were really hunting down his flesh of guns. There…

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Angie said through convoluted gasps brought on by racing Adderall thoughts that Saint died at his desk so Jean could get his job. Jean insisted between tangents of laughter that…

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From Still No Word from You, which was published last month by Catapult. On the black-and-white TV in the kitchen, my mother and I watched Richard Nixon’s helicopter slowly rise.…

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