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Families

The Hard Hill

From This Strange Eventful History, which will be published this month by W. W. Norton. He could hear his wife, Barbara, now in the other room, getting ready for his father’s funeral.…

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The Spies Next Door

China’s covert campaign to intimidate Uighur exiles

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When the Raids Came

The war’s toll on one Afghan family

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The Sound of Vibrance

From posts on DQN Today, a Japanese website that allows users to drop pins on neighborhood maps and note noise or other disturbances. Translated from the Japanese. Several families are…

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The Silent Type

On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

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What it Means to Be Alive

Decoding a father’s farewell

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Islands

By Hilton Als, written on the occasion of Peter Doig’s exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts this spring and published in Transition 113. Als’s “I Am Your Conscious,…

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L’amour filial

By Charlotte Brontë, from an essay written while she was a twenty-six-year-old student at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. The essay, dated August 5, 1842, was discovered last year in…

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