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Waiting for the Lights

by Amir Ahmadi Arian,

The life of an Iranian exile

My Generation

by Justin E. H. Smith,

Anthem for a forgotten cohort

Doctor’s Orders

by Jason Blakely,

COVID-19 and the new science wars

Who Walks Always Beside You?

by Benjamin Hale,

A disappearance in Arkansas

Love in the Time of Sickle Cell Disease

by Krithika Varagur,

What’s the cost of rolling the genetic dice?

Behind the Veil of Indifference

by Jackson Lears,

Lessons from a nuclear life

Doing the Work

by Ian Buruma,

The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness

Submersion Journalism

by Matthew Gavin Frank,

Two thousand feet under the sea in a homemade submarine

In the Glimmer

by Rachel Yoder,

The good witches of Pennsylvania

Why Are We in Ukraine?

by Benjamin Schwarz, Christopher Layne,

On the dangers of American hubris

Take the Medicine to the White Man

by Sierra Crane Murdoch,

A “Native American Church” without Native Americans

Lions and Daughters

by Nancy Lemann,

The underrated art of not getting gored

The Anatomy of Panic

by Michael W. Clune,

A personal history of anxiety

The Age of the Crisis of Work

by Erik Baker,

What is the sound of quiet quitting?

I Really Didn’t Want to Go

by Lauren Oyler,

On the Goop cruise

Numinous Strangers

by Lisa Wells,

The enduring allure of pilgrimage

The Melancholy Universe

by László F. Földényi,Translated by John Batki,

Michael H. Parkinson reappears on the No. 56 streetcar

The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday

by Kyle Paoletta,

How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm

In Search of Lost Time

by Tom Vanderbilt,

The science of the perfect second

A Climate of Fear

by Russell Jacoby,

The free speech skeptics abandon Salman Rushdie

At Random

by Christian Lorentzen,

The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

Frog

by Anne Fadiman,

What happens to the pets that happen to you

Alternative Facts

by Andrew Cockburn,

How the media failed Julian Assange

The European Way to Die

by Michel Houellebecq,Translated by Robyn Creswell,

On euthanasia and assisted suicide

Swamplandia

by Andrew Cockburn,

The money behind Ron DeSantis’s populist façade

No Vacancy

by Wes Enzinna,

Can empty houses help solve homelessness?

Falling Like Leaves

by Ann Neumann,

The war in Ethiopia and its crimes against civilians

White Buffalo

by Christian Wiman,

Keep your mind in hell, and despair not

Truth Takes a Vacation

by Mark Edmundson,

Trumpism and the American philosophical tradition

Last Mile

by Justin Beal,

The art of urine in the age of fulfillment

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