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Forbidding Planet

George R. Stewart’s novels of natural disaster

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I Multiplied Myself

The forty-seven lives of Fernando Pessoa

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Flesh and Blood

From The Dawn of Everything, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In the mid-twentieth century, a British anthropologist named A. M. Hocart proposed that monarchs…

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The Library of Babble

From summaries of books in the library of Hernando Colón, composed by him and his staff and collected in Libro de los Epítomes. The manuscript was discovered in 2019 among…

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Total Recall

From the website of the consultant Tony Rodrigues, who sells courses for $39.99 claiming to help customers recover suppressed memories of interactions with aliens. Rodrigues says he served first as…

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Duck!

From “Call of Nature,” an essay that appeared in Issue 2 of Facility: A Magazine About Bathrooms. Humans, earthbound and stuck within seemingly unbreakable systems of oppression, have long admired…

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Dance Dance Revolution

From Free, a memoir of life in Albania, which was published last month in the United Kingdom by Penguin. In 1995, my father began to practice his English with “the…

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Melancholy & the Infinite Sadness

From The Perishing, which will be published this month by Counterpoint Press. My name is Sarah Shipley and I’ve slept with five women. Since I married a man, no one…

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Book of the Dead

From In the Midst of Civilized Europe, which was published last month by Metropolitan Books. In the years after the Holocaust, survivors began compiling memorial books, one for each city…

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Lip Service

From a photograph tweeted in August by Christian Climate Action of Tim Hewes, an Anglican priest, at the News Corp. offices in London. Hewes sewed his lips together to protest the…

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Meltdowns

From the website mcbroken.com, which tracks broken McDonald’s ice-cream machines across the United States. The machines break down frequently, and McDonald’s franchises are obligated to hire a certified repair person…

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Three Deer, Sharon Springs, November, 2020

From a manuscript in progress. His poetry collection Howdie-Skelp will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Got up though they may be in heavy-duty gabardine they cavort…

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Country Toads Take My Home

From headlines since 2003 in the Sydney Morning Herald about Australia’s rapidly spreading population of invasive cane toads. Top End Turns into Cane Toad Heaven Invasion Spreads The City Strikes…

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Paradise Lost

Shea Stadium is not Eden, and the picture of Tom and Nancy Seaver leaving its graceless precincts in tears did not immediately remind me of the Expulsion of Adam and…

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Letters

Mindsweeper The roster of failed suicide-prediction tests that Will Stephenson explores in his essay [“The Undiscovered Country,” Miscellany, August] reminded me of a time in the mid-Fifties when an eager…

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Continental Divide

Decades ago, my father implored me to get acquainted with James Baldwin. As is often the case with such parental injunctions, I ignored him for a long time, but once…

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New Books

A church destroyed by the Islamic State in Qaraqosh, Iraq, December 2016 © Chris McGrath/Getty Images The longtime war reporter Janine di Giovanni’s powerful new book, The Vanishing (Public Affairs,…

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Good Mother

Custody and care in the shadow of colonization

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The Big Frieze

Cartoonist Ben Garrison’s MAGA in winter

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Minor Threat

MLB puts the farm system out to pasture

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To Be a Field of Poppies

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost

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Three Poems

vesey on the eve Maybe he should have split every tongue among his fellow Israelites whether they swore on their souls or not. Or gone it alone, based on the…

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Status Anxiety

Has Jonathan Franzen found the key?

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Findings

Photographs by Thirza Schaap from the monograph Plastic Ocean, which was published in April by 1605 Publishers © The artist. Courtesy Bildhalle, Zurich and Amsterdam Climate change will benefit rattlesnakes.…

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