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Spent Fuel

The risky resurgence of nuclear power

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A Firm Hand

McKinsey goes to Rikers Island

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An Errand

In Old Delhi, not far from Chandni Chowk, on roads plied only by cycle rickshaws and men and women on foot, there is a wonderful little set of alleyways that…

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Pippi Longstocking

It happened sometimes you asked me To play with you or differentiate Between black birds or help find Three things wrong and I said no Grackles sing like old springs…

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Dangling Man

It’s a dramatic scene. A man clings to the branches of a fruit tree, a look of terror on his face. He’s certainly in a pickle. The tree is bent…

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The Mosaicist

On Evan S. Connell

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Ad Nauseam

Hanya Yanagihara and the pandemic novel

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New Books

Women in Calcutta waiting in line for food during the Bengal famine of 1943 © William Vandivert/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock As the economist and philosopher Amartya Sen approaches ninety, he…

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Letters

Tomorrow Wars Too often, the news cycle neglects the long-term existential threats to human civilization beyond climate change and environmental destruction. So I was pleased that Rachel Riederer [“Ad Astra,”…

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Some Deaths Before Dying

From “How to Be Married,” an essay in the collection How to Be Normal, which will be published next month by Belt Publishing. For some of us, there’s a season…

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Like a Thief in the Night

From Pure Colour, a novel, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mira left home. Then she got a job at a lamp store. The lamp…

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Sixth Elegy

From Little Elegies for Sister Satan, a poetry collection, which was published in May 2021 by New Directions. Here, Sister, it can be said that good-by means hello, day night,…

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Mop Boss

From Corruptible, a book of non-fiction, which was published in November 2021 by Scribner. 1. Steve Raucci was far from the top of the district pecking order. He made $37,500…

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Soul Proprietor

From Sentence, a memoir, which will be published next month by Viking. The entire time I was in prison, I owned a typewriter, and it was on this typewriter that…

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INBOX ($0)

From fund-raising emails sent by the campaign of former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for a second term in 2021. I’m going to level with you:…

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Chronicle of a Death Foreteller

From “7417 Hollywood Boulevard,” which was published in October 2021 in the fourth volume of his All Night Menu series, a history of Los Angeles in five installments. Each booklet…

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Zodiac Killers

From an October 2021 analysis of immunization data by the Salt Lake County Health Department, in Utah, demonstrating how COVID-19 vaccination rates vary by astrological sign. sign percentage fully vaccinated…

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All Hat, No Cattle

From a statement made in July 2021 by Mike Knox, a Houston City Council member. A situation has developed recently regarding the replacement of my official city photograph. Many of…

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Swarm Enemies

From a 2018 study commissioned by the U.S. State Department to investigate claims that an auditory weapon was being deployed against American diplomats in Cuba. The study was published in…

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Flying Colors

From Bird: Exploring the Winged World, which was published in November 2021 by Phaidon Press. The photograph originally appeared in The Budgerigar in 2014. Wild budgerigars are green. This is…

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Supposedly Fun Things I’ll Never Do Again

From the titles of books published since Joy of Cooking was released in 1931. The Joy of Love The Joy of Sex The Joy of Sweat The Joy of Efficiency…

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A Loose Fish

From Last Letter to a Reader, an essay collection, which will be published in May by And Other Stories. I have my own way of assessing the worth of a…

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Over and Back

View Fullscreen Last month’s solution View Fullscreen…

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Life Is a Box of Chocolates

Wise heads tell us we act first, or decide to act first, and reason afterward. What could be put down in black and white as to why we took up…

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Findings

Who loves the sun, a mixed-media artwork by Marcel Dzama, whose work is on view at Sara Hildén Art Museum, in Tampere, Finland © The artist. Courtesy the artist and…

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Grand Illusion

I’ve given the Second World War a uniformly bad press, rejecting all attempts to depict it as a sensible proceeding or to mitigate its cruelty and swinishness. I have rubbed…

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Under the Surface

One morning in September, a dapper Frenchman seated next to me in the garden of the Château de Tocqueville gestured solemnly at the front page of Le Monde, the house…

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Findings

“Parcel,” “Christmas Tree Topper,” and “Father Christmas Mask,” photographs by Martti Jämsä from the Objets trouvés series. Jämsä’s work is on view at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, in Helsinki. Courtesy the…

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