From comments sent to public school boards in the United States since last year. You are forcing them to wear masks for no reason in this world other than control.…

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From a series of diary entries from Kyiv, Ukraine, published daily on isolarii.com. february 24: I woke up early to see eight unanswered calls on my phone. It was my…

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From things for which Roman Catholic popes have apologized. Colonialism Complicity in the slave trade Passivity during the Holocaust The Inquisition Systemic sexual abuse Missionaries in China Sins against the…

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From Liberalism and Its Discontents, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Modern democracies are facing a deep cognitive crisis. For many years now, societies have…

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From London-rose, which was published last month by Semiotext(e). I’m embarrassed by the bitterness I am feeling. It’s as if I had been sipping poison for the past ten years…

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From “Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection,” which was published in the Winter 2022 issue of Dissent. Progressives have struggled to comprehend the foundations of the far right’s continuing…

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From “Man Mountain,” a short story, which was published last month in the inaugural issue of Astra Magazine. I cannot say I fully understood where it came from, but I…

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From A Fierce Green Place, a poetry collection, which will be published next month by New Directions. My father fair with his straight nose and hair kept chickens and a…

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From Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir, which will be published this month by Pantheon. I started teaching women writers in the early Nineties. When I thought about my own…

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From “Steven Pinker Meets Socrates,” which was published in January by First Things. This dialogue incorporates text from Pinker’s book Rationality, which was published last year. steven pinker: Socrates! We…

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From Shelter, a memoir, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. I plotted my return to Baltimore the day after the heaviest snowfall in a decade, a bright…

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From “Journalism and Literature,” an essay that appears for the first time in English in the collection Old Truths and New Clichés, which will be published next month by Princeton…

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From “The Silver Coast,” collected in Homesickness, which will be published next month by Grove Press. Ciara Lavin was sitting at Lorna’s kitchen table along with Emma Doherty and Lorna’s…

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From tips offered by the Huggies diaper brand to people hoping to improve their chance of having twins. Conceive after the age of thirty-five Conceive while taking birth-control pills Conceive…

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From reports of things that have fallen out of aircraft since 2005. Bars of gold A canoe paddle A telephone A wrench A training missile A snake Frozen feces Liquid…

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From criteria developed to diagnose psychopathy in domestic cats, included in “A domestic cat model of triarchic psychopathy factors: Development and initial validation of the CAT-Tri+ questionnaire.” The article was…

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From advice published in Rich People’s Problems, a monthly column in the Financial Times by James Max, during the coronavirus pandemic. If you are adequately insured, then being burgled is…

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From a Michigan court hearing regarding a citation for an unkempt property, which was held on Zoom in January. judge: All right. You have a ticket for failing to keep…

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From entries in The Book Against Death that were published for the first time in English in the Fall 2021–Winter 2022 issue of Salmagundi. Canetti, who received the Nobel Prize…

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From “Three UFOs,” an essay that appeared in the inaugural issue of INQUE, which was published in November. 1. The first UFO woke me from a dead sleep in the…

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From Aurelia, Aurélia, a memoir, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. The driver let me out at the foot of an unpaved lane bordered by trees, their…

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From Letters to Gwen John, which will be published next month by New York Review Books. The letter is dated June 16, 2019, eighty years after John, a Welsh painter,…

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From the 2022 edition of the literary annual NOON, which will be published this month. The four-poster double bed from the redbrick house took up most of the new bedroom,…

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Adapted from the essay “Histories, I,” included in the collection In the Margins, which will be published this month by Europa. Translated from the Italian. Anyone with literary ambitions knows…

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From The Very Last Interview, a collection of questions loosely adapted from interviews with the writer David Shields, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. Any…

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From accounts of calls made by a dog to a human using DogPhone, a toy ball that initiates a video call when moved. The experiments were recounted in Proceedings of…

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From reports of statements made by Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, since 2017. The coronavirus was released as a terror attack on the economy of the world Chemtrails left by aircraft…

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From One Pill Can Kill, a document published in December by the DEA that purports to demonstrate how emojis are used in text conversations about drugs. percocet and oxycodone: 💊…

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