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The Imps of His AgeIn Poe’s “The Imp of the Perverse” (1845), a man pulls off a perfect crime—to be precise, he pulls off a perfect murder, which he considers so...
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Facts That Won’t Go AwayWhat became of Sacagawea after the expedition that made her famous? A scholarly consensus long held that that she died young, of “putrid fever,”...
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A Poem by Álvaro de CamposAh, how refreshing it is when we fail to do our duty! It’s like being in the countryside! Unreliability becomes a refuge! I breathe more easily...
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Death and the HedgehogTolstoy’s contemporaries called him the poet of death, and no one has ever described dying so well. “If a man has learned to think,” Maxim Gorky...
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Meow!Tigger was my wife’s cat, found as a stray and passed on to her by a cousin when he was about a year and a half old. He lived with her in Boston,...
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A Poisonous LegacyIt’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up. Someone murdered Jane Stanford, the cofounder of Stanford University, on Tuesday, February 28, 1905,...
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Who Are the Taliban Now?Nearly two years after the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, the UN refers to the regime only as “the de facto authorities,” to avoid any hint...
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Reclaiming Native Identity in CaliforniaThe American and Sacramento Rivers converge at a wooded bank on the outskirts of California’s state capital. There, on a chilly morning in the...
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Right Busy with Sticks and SpalesIn the 1960s and 1970s, in advance of a plan to expand a local road, a team of archaeologists in Coventry excavated the grounds of what had once...
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June 12, 2020Rattlesnakes fill the lawn one rattlesnake A baby rattlesnake I’m almost ten Years old because in two months I’ll be nine Summer has stuffed the...
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Escaping Biography“Ich werde es zerreissen”—“I’m going to slash it.” So asserted the five- or six-year-old future novelist Nathalie Sarraute to her Swiss governess...
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Not How He Wanted to Be RememberedAn acquaintance of mine, a rising star among lawyers who practice before the Supreme Court, asked me what I was reading these days. When I...
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Life Is Short. Indexes Are Necessary.In 1941 an ambitious Philadelphia pediatrician, the wonderfully named Waldo Emerson Nelson, became the editor of America’s leading textbook of...
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Ego-HistoriesAlthough enrollments in college history courses have plunged in recent years, interest in the subject remains high, to judge from both the...
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The Divine GuidoThe Roman church of Santa Maria della Concezione sits atop a precipitous cliff of volcanic stone that frames the modern Via Veneto. Most visitors...
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Too Good for Hollywood1. I first laid eyes on Aline MacMahon seventy years ago, when I was five and my parents took me to Brooklyn’s Marboro Theatre to see Alfred E....
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The Millions We Failed to Save“I am forced to look out for emigration and as far as I can see USA is the only country we could go to,” Otto Frank wrote to an American friend on...
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‘Art’ or ‘Research’?To the Editors: Jed Perl’s article “The Chilliest Mystique” [NYR, May 11] states, “A. Michael Noll’s and Frieder Nake’s computer-generated...
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How Microloans Betrayed CambodiansOn her bank’s loan sheets Ban Sophear looks like an ideal borrower. At forty-seven, she runs a small business buying fish on the southern edge of...
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Fireball Over SiberiaOn February 15, 2013, a luminous object trailed across the skies above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, in the southern Urals. It was around...
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Asylum in LimboOn May 11 Title 42 finally expired. The public health order, issued by the Trump administration in March 2020, almost completely shut down asylum...
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White BayIn March 2015 I visited a friend, the Argentinean journalist Sandra Crucianelli, and her husband, Gabriel, for dinner in Bahía Blanca, a coastal...
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The New OrganizersIn December 2021 unions won two victories that have significantly reshaped the American labor movement in the years since: Starbucks Workers...
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Court and SparkIn September 1969 Susan Taubes returned to Budapest, the city where she had lived until the age of eleven. Standing outside her childhood home...
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The Dank UndergroundHow did countercultures commune before the Internet? One quaint and underappreciated precursor to the information highway was the underground...
