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Noise

The Sound of Vibrance

Translated by Robert Chapeskie,

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…

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,…

Sound and Fury

by Garret Keizer,

The politics of noise in a loud society

Untitled

Art by Tullio Pericoli,

Listening for silence

by Mark Slouka,

Notes on the aural life

Reports

by Robert A. Baron,

Dangerous noises

Rock and rue?

by Harper’s Staff,

Christmas list

by John Fischer,

Noise

by H.M. Johnson,

A social problem

Alleviating circumstances

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,