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Bitcoin Plunges

From reports about the circumstances of the deaths of cryptocurrency millionaires and billionaires. A cryptocurrency influencer accused of perpetrating one of the largest crypto scams in Spanish history was found…

Dark Knights of the Soul

by Gail Godwin,

From Getting to Know Death, which will be published this month by Bloomsbury. I have been close to people who one day found themselves in the desperate place and didn’t…

New Books

by Dan Piepenbring,

I’m a father now. Please, hold your applause. As I write this, my son is fifteen days old, and I’m staring into the soft hurricane whorl of his hair, thinking…

Like Other People

by Hammam Alloh,

From an account by Dr. Hammam Alloh that was told to Maya Rosen and published by Jewish Currents on October 30, 2023. Alloh was killed by an Israeli airstrike in…

The Ethics of Pet Ownership

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Anne Fadiman

What is it to be happy? Dissecting the long life of a pet frog

End Notes

by Elias Canetti,Translated by Peter Filkins,

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…

Sea of Tranquility

by Kathryn Davis,

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…

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer,

From a conversation between Olaf Scholz and two eleven-year-olds, Pauline and Romeo, who were interviewing candidates for chancellor of Germany. The exchange aired in September on Late Night Berlin. Scholz…

The Portrait Gallery

by Ann Patchett,

What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death

When Children Die

by Perri Klass,

Tragedies in the margins of history

A Walk to Remember

by Fenton Johnson,

From At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life, published this month by W. W. Norton. When I imagine my death, I do not see myself surrounded…