Inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist”

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Collages by Jim Goldberg, from Coming and Going, which was published in September by MACK © Jim Goldberg/Magnum. Courtesy the artist and MACK In recollection it seems less memory than…

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Keeping company with outdoor people

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Science Fiction Jason Blakely offers a persuasive critique of the scientism that was widely apparent in the early days of the pandemic [“Doctor’s Orders,” Essay, August]. Public officials justified controversial…

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The original Anthology Film Archives, on Lafayette Street in Manhattan, was designed with high black partitions between each seat, so that viewers could wall themselves in to the screen like…

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From a meeting in July at Texas A&M University. In May, Kathleen McElroy had accepted a tenured position as the head of the university’s journalism program. The Texas Tribune reported…

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Where’s the support for Democratic insurgents?

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In the last two years of his brief and stormy life, Robert Kennedy showed a remarkable ability to arouse extravagant political hopes. California grape-pickers came to look upon him as…

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A historical adventure

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On seeing without being seen

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Cannabis returns to Kathmandu

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Beyond the Ukrainian president’s finest hour

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the beauty of synchronic rule The orchestra rises. The trombonist is inexplicably gloved. There is news in his horn. The audience is crowded together like husbands in a canoe none…

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I’m going to take a minute now to see if I can get my dates straight. Peter and I were married in June 1962. In early December, Peter told me…

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From Grand Tour, which was published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I offer a friend’s young daughter a leaf of mint just picked, inviting her to smell, when…

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From petitions to the U.K. parliament since 2020 that have received more than ten thousand signatures, which means the government must formally respond. Make dog theft a criminal offense Make…

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From Brooklyn Crime Novel, which will be published this month by Ecco. Say a guy, a former Dean Street boy, now resident of an apartment above a bar on Columbia…

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From the final issue of Freeman’s, which was published this month by Grove Press.  My father worked as an inventory manager at a company that imported erasers and small toy…

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On Annie Ernaux’s spectacular impersonality

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From “Real Estate,” which was published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Dublin Review. the village When I was around twelve, we moved to an estate in Newbridge, which…

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“Holding, Japanese Cypress, 1,” “Holding, Japanese Cypress, 2,” and “Holding, Japanese Cypress, 3,” photographs by Melanie Schiff © The artist. Courtesy the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles   Global…

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From “An Account of the Otter,” which was published in the Summer 2023 issue of BOMB Magazine. Whereas some people have a passion for sex, my mentor has a passion…

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From affidavits filed by residents of Falmouth, Massachusetts, regarding a new pickleball court.  We are of sound mind.  Pre-pickleball, we enjoyed the outside of our home tremendously.  We could be…

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A few years ago I found myself close to an episode of tabloid intrigue. A friend’s uncle was accused of murdering his wife in a rich Connecticut town. He attempted suicide…

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From an unpublished draft of his memoir. A longtime television critic for Newsday, he died in June at age ninety-three.  During the Great Depression, my father always had a job.…

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