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Noise pollution

Neighbors

by Deb Olin Unferth,

Maximilian in the basement watched TV every night. I lay on a mattress on the floor in the apartment above him. He’d turn on the news around ten, fall asleep,…

Motherhood

by Sarah Manguso,

In the beginning, waiting for the baby to feed or stop feeding or burp or pass wind or yellow liquid shit, I postponed showers, phone calls, bowel movements. With the…

Inglourious berds

by Harper’s Staff,

Sound and Fury

by Garret Keizer,

The politics of noise in a loud society

The sound of doom

by Peter McCabe,

The need for silence

by Edward Tatnall Canby,

After Wordsworth

by Paul Fatout,

Noise

by H.M. Johnson,

A social problem

Misunderstanding

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

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