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DEAR PARENTS
Dear Parents, Welcome to Kinderkids Nursery School! We so loved meeting you all at orientation.
3 min |
November 20, 2023
The New Yorker
WILD REEDS
James Austin Smith proves that an oboist can have an adventurous solo career.
5 min |
November 20, 2023
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BEGIN END
A coder on the waning days of the craft.
10+ min |
November 20, 2023
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CARLOS GOFFMÁN, (EL GUAPO) FACT CHECKER
During a period of incarceration scheduled to last fifty years to life, Carlos (El Guapo) Goffmán, the former drug lord, has started a new career as a fact checker and researcher to earn cigarette money in prison. Authorities have looked the other way at Goffmán’s nonobservance of the rule against inmate cell-phone use, but have recorded his end of the calls.
4 min |
November 13, 2023
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Our Time Is Up Clare Sestanovich
The mirrors reveal when it’s time to clean again. A thin layer of dust on the one in the bed room, toothpaste and fingerprints on the one in the bathroom, which doubles as a cabinet door. All the windows become mirrors at the end of the day, when it takes a subtle adjustment of the eyes to look through yourself instead of at yourself. But the windows will never be cleaned; the most that can be hoped for is a hard, purifying rain. There’s a yellow streak of bird shit on the glass in the living room, crusted over now, and the kitchen window still bears the ghostly pattern that Angela once traced on the fogged-up surface while waiting for something on the stove, she can no longer remember what: a pot to boil, a formless egg to acquire edges and turn opaque, a single drop of oil to escape its pan and scald her out of her thoughts.
10+ min |
November 13, 2023
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NAPOLEON COMPLEX
Does Ridley Scott see himself in the hero of his epic new film?
10+ min |
November 13, 2023
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THE CURRENT CINEMA MAN DOWN
\"Priscilla\" and \"Dream Scenario.\"
6 min |
November 13, 2023
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MAKE ME
Is free will an illusion? You decide.
10+ min |
November 13, 2023
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COPING MECHANISMS
Philip Roth's \"Sabbath's Theater\" adapted for the stage, and \"I Need That.\"
5 min |
November 13, 2023
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DEPT. OF SCIENCE REINVENTING THE DINOSAUR
A documentary renews our fascination with our feared and loved precursors.
10+ min |
November 13, 2023
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THE ORGANIZER
How Bayard Rustin managed the civil-rights movement.
10+ min |
November 13, 2023
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TRYSTS TROPIQUES
The nested narratives of Tan Twan Eng's \"The House of Doors.\"
10+ min |
November 13, 2023
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Annals of Crime – Desert Captives
An Eritrean started a trafficking business. Then he began kidnapping his clients for ransom.
10+ min |
November 13, 2023
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A Dangerous Man
Why Congo's independence leader Patrice Lumumba had to die
10+ min |
November 06, 2023
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Letter from Israel – In the Cities of Killing
The Hamas massacre, the air strikes in Gaza, and what comes after
10+ min |
November 06, 2023
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Thanksgiving Rider
This document acknowledges that Lauren (“Talent”) has agreed to appear for a MAXIMUM of THREE (3) days and TWO (2) nights at the residence of her mother (“Venue”) during the Thanksgiving holiday, pursuant to the terms of this agreement.
8 min |
November 06, 2023
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The Ghosts of Gloria Lara
Before that year, I knew nothing about Colombia—nothing real. I was eleven and too focussed on the Dominican Republic I’d left behind and on my own immigrant bullshit to worry about anywhere else
10+ min |
November 06, 2023
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THE BRUNCH BUNCH
Stephen Sondheim’ last musical, Here We Are,” at the Shed.
5 min |
November 06, 2023
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ON THE LINE
The future of American labor politics
10+ min |
November 06, 2023
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THE BELIEVER
Did Mitt Romney save his soul?
10 min |
November 06, 2023
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MASTERING
“The Killer” and The Holdovers.”
7 min |
November 06, 2023
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LOOSE LIPS
Clandestine affairs in Fellow Travelers.”
5 min |
November 06, 2023
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BOXED OUT
The passing of prestige TV
10+ min |
November 06, 2023
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THROUGH THE SMOKE
The aftermath of the Maui wildfires
10+ min |
November 06, 2023
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LAST WATCH
In a technological age, lighthouse devotees renew an ancient tradition
10+ min |
November 06, 2023
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THE WRESTLER
How Jim Jordan prosecutes Trump's conspiracy theories in Congress.
10+ min |
October 30, 2023
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IF NOT NOW, LATER
What gardening offered after a son's death
10+ min |
October 30, 2023
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NEEDFUL THINGS
The raw materials for the world we've built come at a cost.
10+ min |
October 30, 2023
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CHINA'S AGE OF MALAISE
Facing a grim economy, disillusioned youth, and fleeing entrepreneurs, Xi Jinping turns to the past
10+ min |
October 30, 2023
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REORIENTING "BUTTERFLY"
At Detroit Opera, a new production subverts Puccini’ depiction of Japan.
6 min |