CULTURE
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Always Inadequate | The New Yorker
In the late nineteen-sixties I lived for a year, with my then husband, in the middle of an apple orchard…
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Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
When the Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta was going up for a promotion to full professor, in early 2023, it…
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What Is Benjamin Netanyahu Really After?
On Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government approved a plan for Israel to take control of Gaza City, where about a million…
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Donald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air
That Donald Trump would end up shouting from the rooftops of Washington is not, in and of itself, all that…
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 4th
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link
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Jamaica Kincaid on “Putting Myself Together”
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Should Police Officers Be More Like U.F.C. Fighters?
Deep inside a municipal building in the Seattle suburbs, Rener Gracie is directing police-academy recruits in an elaborate role-playing scenario.…
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Notes on Bed Rest | The New Yorker
Early in my first pregnancy, about three years ago, I did a thing that a lot of pregnant women do.…
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Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate
The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and the U.S.,…
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Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?
Hurwitz, however, is undaunted by such matters. For one thing, he is not troubled by the notion that children will…
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