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“As the last branches
disappear into the heavenly darkness,
what remains is what resists and what
clings to the oblivion of a fallen world
that exists in memory only, and poetry.”
A poem by David Lehman.
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“It’s a very complicated story, it was a very emotional thing, it was a very bad thing.” Revisit our 2010 report on how the now-best-selling author Delia Owens, who wrote “Where the Crawdads Sing,” became involved in a mysterious tragedy.
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Clashes between sovereignty rights and civil rights reveal an uncomfortable and complicated story about race and belonging in America.
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David Grann’s 2005 report on a quest to uncover a lost civilization deep in the Amazonian rain forest—which has been described as “the last great blank space in the world.”
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At tonight’s congressional hearing on the events of January 6, 2021, a security professional shared what he heard from listening to radio traffic while Secret Service agents were attempting to evacuate Mike Pence.
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This summer, crowds have returned to the Schindler House in the Hollywood Hills, as the modernist building celebrates its centennial.
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“Some of the greatest innovations in the field were fuelled by a spirit of ‘What if?’ and/or high levels of THC.” writes about the art of making a good sandwich.
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At a glance, the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League can look like some uneasy combination of art, aid, and penance—but it’s become something far larger and more interesting than the moral outrage and white guilt from which it seems to have been forged.
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The pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who died this week at 93, created monumental tributes to the sheer thingness of ordinary things.
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In late summer, millions of monarch butterflies—now officially an endangered species—leave Canada and the northeastern United States and fly for two months, as far as 3,000 miles. Explore the extraordinary migration and the forces that threaten it: nyer.cm/T0ddlLf
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A century ago, the architect R. M. Schindler designed a modern communal residence at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. It’s still an inspiration, writes.
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At a climate event, President Biden stopped short of declaring an emergency. The day’s announcements, an expert on climate policy said, were worthwhile but “small ball.”
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In the 1920s, the members of the Osage Indian Nation became the world’s richest people per capita. Then they began to be mysteriously murdered off.
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“I put up with her for a long time till I got tired, you know?” Mavis Staples said, of Aretha Franklin, whom she knew since childhood. “She was very insecure. I tried my best to be her friend.”
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Do you even know the back of your hand’s favorite color?
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Nick Paumgarten remembers the New Yorker editor John Bennet, whose “rare mix of taste, judgment, candor, composure, selflessness, and insubordination” earned the trust, respect, and gratitude of his writers.
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“The Last Movie Stars,” Ethan Hawke’s new documentary about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, confronts the phenomenon of living under the scrutiny of adoration.
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The dating app Feeld asks its users to be open about their desires. Other apps, for all their creative prompts, never state the question plainly: What kind of sex do you want to have?
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Which actor witnessed a Komodo dragon attack her then husband while on a private tour of the Los Angeles Zoo?
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“The amount of excess reserve in the United States is 2,000 times the amount at the time of the Lehman crisis, in 2008,” the chief economist at Nomura Research Institute says. “That’s why it’s so difficult to tighten monetary policy.”
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“I’ve come to see this not as a tactic that’s written down anywhere or passed as direct orders,” one psychologist said. But “if a Russian battalion hunkers down in a particular town or village for two weeks or longer, then we will see cases of rape.”
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The Volkswagen ID. Buzz—on sale in Europe in the fall and available in the U.S. in 2024—isn’t just any electric car. It’s a bid for Volkswagen’s redemption.
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Philadelphia : hoagie :: New York : ____: four letters.
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Monarch butterflies are now an endangered species. Explore their extraordinary journey—the most evolutionarily advanced migration of any known butterfly, perhaps of any known insect—and the forces that threaten it.
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“When we hear or read the utterances of a celebrity, the words bounce off the public persona and create something like the loud interfering feedback from a microphone.” In 2014, Lee Siegel wrote about the friendship of T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx.
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For a few days in 1950, Hemingway, who was born on this day in 1899, stopped in New York on his way to Europe. Relive the disgruntled coat buying, aggressive champagne drinking, and the long time spent looking at pictures.
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This week, temperatures in the U.K. passed 104 degrees Fahrenheit. The leading candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister range from lukewarm to reluctant on efforts to slow climate change.
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“I wasn’t sure what appetizers you liked, so I just stuck to tried-and-true crowd-pleasers: spoonfuls of yeast, powdered-egg pops, and baby formula that I’ve been hoarding since the late ’80s.”
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“He had a duty to stay alive, to feel hope and to be interested in the future, while she had come to some peace with herself. Nothing could hurt her now.” Flash fiction by Hugo Hamilton.
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In the past four decades, has become a small empire, consisting of four stores with some 50,000 books, all in the town of Oxford, Mississippi.
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“The Boxcar Children” is a stealthy capitalist fairy tale. Work hard and you’ll be happy, and then you’ll get money.
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Reproductive health care in the state of Wisconsin is now guided by legislation that predates the Civil War.
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Justine Kurland’s photographs of teen girls are charged with a feral sense of possibility.
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From 2013: The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise.
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Mel Brooks discusses comedy, sandwiches, and how he got away with so much stuff. “I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes,” he says. “You say yes, and you never do it.”
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