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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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K9-1-1

From accounts of calls made by a dog to a human using DogPhone, a toy ball that initiates a video call when moved. The experiments were recounted in Proceedings of…

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Mechanical Jerk

From reports of statements made by Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, since 2017. The coronavirus was released as a terror attack on the economy of the world Chemtrails left by aircraft…

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Pusher Alerts

From One Pill Can Kill, a document published in December by the DEA that purports to demonstrate how emojis are used in text conversations about drugs. percocet and oxycodone: 💊…

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Gray-Area Lady

From December headlines in the New York Times that were altered after publication. The changes were detected by the @nyt_diff Twitter bot, which automatically tweets alterations to the Times website.…

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The Mirror

From Late Fragments, which will be published next month by Yale University Press. Translated from the French. A frightful-looking man comes in and looks at himself in the mirror. “Why…

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In-Flight Meal

From a report, published in November, of an uncooperative passenger entered into Delta’s Aircraft Communications, Addressing, and Reporting System. FI DL1360/AN N326US<< DT DDL CVG 021734 M22A<< – 3401/02 KSYR/KATL…

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New Books

Self-portrait with Scorpion, by Leonor Fini, from Leonor Fini: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, which was published last year by Scheidegger & Spiess © Leonor Fini Estate, Paris/Artists Rights…

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Peculiar Things, Yet Intimately Familiar

The elusive fiction of Claire-Louise Bennett

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