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The Hothouse

Tracking the past and future spread of ragweed allergies

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White Rapture

From Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir, which will be published this month by Pantheon. I started teaching women writers in the early Nineties. When I thought about my own…

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A Man of All Reasons

From “Steven Pinker Meets Socrates,” which was published in January by First Things. This dialogue incorporates text from Pinker’s book Rationality, which was published last year. steven pinker: Socrates! We…

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Another Land

From Shelter, a memoir, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. I plotted my return to Baltimore the day after the heaviest snowfall in a decade, a bright…

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No News Is Bad News

From “Journalism and Literature,” an essay that appears for the first time in English in the collection Old Truths and New Clichés, which will be published next month by Princeton…

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Remains of the Day

From “The Silver Coast,” collected in Homesickness, which will be published next month by Grove Press. Ciara Lavin was sitting at Lorna’s kitchen table along with Emma Doherty and Lorna’s…

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Make It a Double

From tips offered by the Huggies diaper brand to people hoping to improve their chance of having twins. Conceive after the age of thirty-five Conceive while taking birth-control pills Conceive…

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In the Air Tonight

From reports of things that have fallen out of aircraft since 2005. Bars of gold A canoe paddle A telephone A wrench A training missile A snake Frozen feces Liquid…

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We Need to Talk About Kitty

From criteria developed to diagnose psychopathy in domestic cats, included in “A domestic cat model of triarchic psychopathy factors: Development and initial validation of the CAT-Tri+ questionnaire.” The article was…

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Pearls of Wisdom

From advice published in Rich People’s Problems, a monthly column in the Financial Times by James Max, during the coronavirus pandemic. If you are adequately insured, then being burgled is…

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Lawn & Order

From a Michigan court hearing regarding a citation for an unkempt property, which was held on Zoom in January. judge: All right. You have a ticket for failing to keep…

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End Notes

From entries in The Book Against Death that were published for the first time in English in the Fall 2021–Winter 2022 issue of Salmagundi. Canetti, who received the Nobel Prize…

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The Battle for Kyiv

Photographs from Ukraine

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Bright Flight

The mysteries of firefly synchrony

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The Other Side of the Coin

The entrance to Castle Garden was blocked up with vehicles, peddlers of cheap cigars, apple stands, and runners from the boarding houses and intelligence offices that abound in the neighborhood…

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The Eros Monster

Breaking free without breaking up

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Capital Flight

Once upon a time in a galaxy not far from London, a group called the Association of Autonomous Astronauts was born. The AAA announced a bold “Five Year Plan for…

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Five Stories

can this be i? Actually, I had walked into the hallway and disappeared into the bedroom briefly. Several of them danced and I heard Vida say about me, “He disappeared…

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Findings

“Bodega, East 110 Street, NYC” and “Vila’s Barber Shop, NYC,” photographs by Roger Cabán from the exhibition En Foco: TheNew York Puerto Rican Experience, 1973–74 © The artist. Courtesy the…

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Letters

A Note to Subscribers Because of postal delays and a national paper shortage, the January and February issues were delivered later than usual. We apologize for the wait, and hope…

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Voice Lessons

How coaches get in athletes’ heads

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Dark Skies

From “Three UFOs,” an essay that appeared in the inaugural issue of INQUE, which was published in November. 1. The first UFO woke me from a dead sleep in the…

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Sea of Tranquility

From Aurelia, Aurélia, a memoir, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. The driver let me out at the foot of an unpaved lane bordered by trees, their…

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Work-Life Balance

From Letters to Gwen John, which will be published next month by New York Review Books. The letter is dated June 16, 2019, eighty years after John, a Welsh painter,…

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How Do You Do

From the 2022 edition of the literary annual NOON, which will be published this month. The four-poster double bed from the redbrick house took up most of the new bedroom,…

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The Witchcraft We Need

Adapted from the essay “Histories, I,” included in the collection In the Margins, which will be published this month by Europa. Translated from the Italian. Anyone with literary ambitions knows…

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Exit Interview

From The Very Last Interview, a collection of questions loosely adapted from interviews with the writer David Shields, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. Any…

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