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When They Were Pretty

From Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes, which was republished this month by McNally Editions. “Heavens, Harriet,” Mrs. Klein said when Aunt Harry gave her the hot rum drink, “I need…

To Be a Field of Poppies

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Lisa Wells, Ann Neumann

Compost yourself: on the social, psychological, and ecological implications of rethinking what happens to our bodies after we die

To Be a Field of Poppies

by Lisa Wells,

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost

Out With a Bang

From the website of Holy Smoke, a memorial-services company based in Alabama.

House of Fire

by Nell Freudenberger,

Can India’s Parsis survive their own success?

Edible Complex

by Herodotus, Tom Holland,

From a new translation of Herodotus’ The Histories, by Tom Holland, out this month from Viking.

Blast rites

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by David Maisel,

Death be not plush

by Harper’s Staff,

Burning Olivier

by George Michelsen Foy,

The brief life and private burial of an infant son

The old story in a new way

by Harper’s Staff,

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When They Were Pretty

To Be a Field of Poppies

To Be a Field of Poppies

Out With a Bang

House of Fire

Edible Complex

Blast rites

Readings

Death be not plush

Burning Olivier

The old story in a new way

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