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Brute Force

From reports of weapons used by demonstrators and police officers in Portland, Oregon, where authorities have repeatedly used force to break up crowds protesting the police killing of George Floyd.…

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Hawthorne

From Willamette, a poetry collection, which is forthcoming from Knopf. Vertical lift in the Oregon Sunshine Makes for a perennial Escape route Black walnut trees are memory and skid They…

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B-Sighs

From “12 Sides,” an essay published in the Summer 2020 issue of Maggot Brain, a magazine published by Third Man Records. It also appeared in Sante’s collection Maybe the People…

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Findings

“Orange Pushy,” “Landscape,” and “Threesome,” photographs by Erin O’Keefe© The artist. Courtesy Denny Dimin Gallery, New York City Americans who are old, white, uneducated, unemployed, and live in someone else’s…

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New Books

A self-portrait by Francisco Goya, 1810 © akg-images/Nimatallah The best-known works of the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya do not give the impression of having been created by a particularly…

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The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres

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Le Mot Juste

The soothing clarity of Shirley Hazzard

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I Imitate You

1960s newspaper clippings and teeth hang on a string—Like a book of life I’m in the kitchen with my killer Picking all the teeth out of a mouth harp Cigarette-ing…

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Life During Wartime

Learning to Go to Sea on Shore, by George Wright. Originally published in the November 1918 issue of Harper’s Magazine It is a small hotel compared with the fashionable resorts…

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On Defense

Twenty-five years of fighting mass incarceration in court

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Reason Not the Need

Self-storage and the dream of infinite space

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If I’m to Go

How to fight a deportation

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America’s Game

The reprise and demise of the XFL

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Perfect Storm

When is it time to abandon a place to climate change?

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The Sanctuary

Life in a cop-free zone

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Time to Destination

From the novel The Silence

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Letters

Promised Land As organizers mentioned in Audrea Lim’s essay on community land trusts [“We Shall Not Be Moved,” Report, July], we wanted to expand on why we have pursued this…

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Fighting Words

Ever since a New York Times newsroom revolt over a controversial op-ed, American media—if not American society at large—has been engaged in another round of debate about the limits of…

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Which Side Are You On?

On December 20, 2014, a twenty-eight-year-old man named Ismaaiyl Brinsley walked up to a parked patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, pulled out a semiautomatic handgun, and fired…

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Disappearing Ink

From Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, a collection of essays, which will be published next month by W. W. Norton. We live in an era…

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Reborn to Run

From The Book of Atlantis Black, which was published last month by Tin House Books. 1. Once, when my older sister Nancy was twelve, she told me she’d decided to…

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Apple Watch

From surveillance measures taken by governments and institutions around the world in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Connected patient case numbers with location data Deployed drones to scold pedestrians…

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Empathy, My Dear Watson

From a lawsuit filed in June by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle alleging that an upcoming Netflix film about Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, depicts Sherlock…

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Intellectual Property

From For Now, which will be published this month by Yale University Press as part of the Why I Write series. A version of the essay was delivered at Yale…

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After Midnight

From Self-Portrait with Russian Piano, a novel, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the German. You ask me whether I still keep up…

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The Long Goodbye

From sign-offs in the correspondence of the philosopher collected in Letters and Other Texts, which was published in July by Semiotext(e). Wishes, wishes, wishes Friendship and wishes Thinking of your…

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Call Me by Your Pain

From first names given to babies born around the world during the early months of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Corona Corona Kumar Corona Kumari Covid Covid Marie Covid Rose Coviduvidapdap…

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