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20th century

White-Tailed Deer, Michigan, circa 1900

Sorry not Sorry

by Iris Murdoch,

From Living on Paper, a collection of Iris Murdoch’s letters published next month by Princeton University Press and Chatto & Windus. Murdoch (1919–99) was the author of numerous novels, including The…

Search History

From queries submitted by telephone and in person to the New York Public Library’s Reference and Research Services between 1940 and 1989.

Our Truly Dreadful Situation

by Fred Hoyle,

Why is the Universe as it is and not something else? Why is the Universe here at all? It is true that at present we have no clue to the…

A Special Relationship

by Andrew Cockburn,

The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

The Charmer

by Fredrik deBoer,

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

by Art Spiegelman,

A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at — right now!

Same Mistakes

by Emily Cooke,

Ted Hughes’s evasions

Riding the Night

by John Masefield,

All the way, at odd times, far off, with neither sense nor sequence, the guns have sounded almost like the noises of peace — blasting or pile-driving. Now, outside the…

Getting to the End

by J. C. Hallman,

Gambling and suicide in Atlantic City

The Body Politic

by Emily Witt,

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse.

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