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Quality of life

You Must Change Your Life

by Hari Kunzru,

In 1829, Agathon-Jean-Francois, Baron Fain, wrote a memoir of his time serving as secretary to the emperor Napoleon. A reader searching for details about great battles or power struggles will…

Petty Cash

by Leslie Jamison,

From “The Assistant’s Loft,” an essay from a revised edition of the anthology Goodbye to All That, which was published last month by Seal Press. She had a name, but…

Our Phony Economy

by Jonathan Rowe,

From testimony delivered March 12 before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce. Rowe is codirector of West Marin Commons, a community-organizing group, in California.…

The urge for an end

by Edward Hoagland,

Contemplating suicide

Why smaller refrigerators can preserve the human race

by Appletree Rodden,

The worst American city

by Arthur M. Louis,

Report

by Homer H. Shannon,

A personal lament

Reports

by Ralph Blumenthal,

Planning with sense

In the country of the young [part I]

by John W. Aldridge,

American directions

by Peter Ferdinand Drucker,

A forecast

Take back your sable! Or, what’s so good about good times?

by Russell Lynes,

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