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DUTY DANCING
The New Yorker

DUTY DANCING

How Seamus Heaney wrote his way through a war.

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September 09, 2024
DESPERATELY SEEKING
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DESPERATELY SEEKING

The supreme contradictions of Simone Weil.

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September 09, 2024
WILD THING
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WILD THING

MJ Lenderman resists the smoothing, neutering effects of technology.

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September 09, 2024
LUCK OF THE DRAW
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LUCK OF THE DRAW

Nate Silver argues that poker can help us game our uncertain world.

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September 09, 2024
GREEN SLEEVES
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GREEN SLEEVES

“What I want to know,” the woman said to the therapist, “is why the voices always say mean, terrible things.

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September 09, 2024
EVERY OBITUARY'S FIRST PARAGRAPH
The New Yorker

EVERY OBITUARY'S FIRST PARAGRAPH

Alfred T. Alfred, whose invention of the plastic fastener that affixes tags to clothing upended the tag industry and made him one of America’s youngest multimillionaires—until he lost his plastic fastener fortune in a 1993 game of badminton, as depicted in the Lifetime original movie “Bad Minton”— died on Saturday. He was eighty-one.

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September 09, 2024
BE HER GUEST
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BE HER GUEST

The plush ambience of Ina Garten's good fortune.

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September 09, 2024
SPREADING THE WEALTH
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SPREADING THE WEALTH

Why a young heiress asked fifty strangers to redistribute her fortune.

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September 09, 2024
THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT
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THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT

An audience with the Pope.

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September 09, 2024
On Television - Devil May Care - "Evil," on Paramount+.
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On Television - Devil May Care - "Evil," on Paramount+.

"Evil," on Paramount+. The version of Catholicism favored by David Acosta, one of the two protagonists of the delightfully unhinged religious procedural “Evil,” likely doesn’t exist. David (Mike Colter), a Black man who starts the series as a priest-in-training, is often let down by the Church’s ossified white leadership. But his more progressive faith is accompanied by rather medieval forms of devotion. He battles against demons, participates in exorcisms, and chases the high of a formative vision of God, even if he can now only achieve moments of transcendence with the assistance of psychedelics. The temporal dislocation of his calling creates a sense of cognitive dissonance, but, in David’s view, dedicating himself to the Church, for all its imperfections, may be his best chance at insuring that the world doesn’t go to Hell in a handbasket.

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September 02, 2024
Early Scenes - Remembering a childhood in the South Bronx.
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Early Scenes - Remembering a childhood in the South Bronx.

When I was born, in 1940, my father, Salvatore Pacino, was all of eighteen, and my mother, Rose Gerardi Pacino, was just a few years older. Suffice it to say that they were young parents, even for the time. I probably hadn’t even turned two when they split up. My mother and I lived in a series of furnished rooms in Harlem and then moved into her parents’ apartment, in the South Bronx. We hardly got any financial support from my father. Eventually, we were allotted five dollars a month by a court, just enough to cover our expenses at my grandparents’ place.

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September 02, 2024
The Kamala Show
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The Kamala Show

The evolution of Harris’ public persona.

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August 26, 2024
A Cult in the Forest - The vast majority of Kenyans are Christian, a faith that arrived with early colonization. A group of Finnish missionaries brought Pentecostalism in the nineteen-hundreds
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A Cult in the Forest - The vast majority of Kenyans are Christian, a faith that arrived with early colonization. A group of Finnish missionaries brought Pentecostalism in the nineteen-hundreds

The vast majority of Kenyans are Christian, a faith that arrived with early colonization. A group of Finnish missionaries brought Pentecostalism in the nineteen-hundreds. The colonial government tried to suppress it, because a faction of pro-independence freedom fighters belonged to the African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa, which included messages about decolonization in its hymns. But after independence, in 1963, Pentecostalism and other forms of evangelical Christianity spread. They emphasized charismatic forms of worship—visions, spiritual healing, speaking in tongues—and a gospel that promised prosperity to the faithful. “If you want your church to be full, do what I call ‘spiritual gymnastics,’ ” Martin Olando, a scholar of African Christianity at the Bishop Hannington Institute, in Mombasa, told me. “Jump up and down, prophesize good tidings, tell people what they want to hear.” By the nineties, Kenya’s President, Daniel arap Moi, enjoyed a beneficial relationship with Arthur Kitonga, an influential Pentecostal bishop. “President Moi has been appointed by God to lead this country,” Kitonga said at the time. William Ruto, Kenya’s current President, and its first evangelical one, brought gospel singers into his campaign team and party, and has donated cars, and thousands of dollars, to evangelical churches. His wife, Rachel, invited the U.S.-based televangelist Benny Hinn to preach with her at a crusade. (This year, Hinn apologized for giving fake prophecies. “There were times when I thought God had showed me something that He wasn’t showing me,” he told the Christian podcast “Strang Report.”)

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August 26, 2024
FAITH HEALING
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FAITH HEALING

\"Between the Temples.\"

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September 02, 2024
FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY
The New Yorker

FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY

How Post Malone made himself at home in Nashville.

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September 02, 2024
THE COLLECTOR
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THE COLLECTOR

Bonnie Slotnick, the downtown food-history savant.

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September 02, 2024
LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST
The New Yorker

LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST

The forgotten history of sex in America.

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September 02, 2024
LIVING UNDER A ROCK
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LIVING UNDER A ROCK

A geologist reflects on her life.

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September 02, 2024
THE PARTICLES OF ORDER
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THE PARTICLES OF ORDER

The guest from America was to arrive in the late afternoon.

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September 02, 2024
BUNKER MENTALITY
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BUNKER MENTALITY

Shopping for a home at the end of the world.

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September 02, 2024
LIFE OF THE PARTY
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LIFE OF THE PARTY

The Democrats seem rejuvenated by their new candidate. Why was it so hard to get one?

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September 02, 2024
A GUIDE TO BRAT SUMMER
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A GUIDE TO BRAT SUMMER

This summer, we’ve found ourselves in an unprecedented era of Brat.

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September 02, 2024
THE LAST DAY
The New Yorker

THE LAST DAY

How declining enrollment threatens education nationwide.

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September 02, 2024
My New Thing
The New Yorker

My New Thing

My new thing is journaling. It was bullet journals, but now it’s journal bullets, which is where I make a quick note anytime I see a magazine. No, the other kind of magazine.

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August 05, 2024
Sea Change- Mountains, oddly, are the reason most of us have learned to think of the level of the sea as a stable point, a baseline, an unmoving benchmark against which one might reasonably measure the height of great peaks.
The New Yorker

Sea Change- Mountains, oddly, are the reason most of us have learned to think of the level of the sea as a stable point, a baseline, an unmoving benchmark against which one might reasonably measure the height of great peaks.

In 2019, a plaque was erected to commemorate the first glacier in Iceland to shrink so much that it could no longer be considered a glacier. Like the tsunami stones of the past, the plaque carried a message for the future, a warning to believe in changes that might at first seem implausible. It also carried a recognition of responsibility. “In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” the plaque reads. “This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”

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August 26, 2024
My Life's Work- All I have in the world is a paternal aunt and a tank of fish that love me. And my work. I'm nobody.
The New Yorker

My Life's Work- All I have in the world is a paternal aunt and a tank of fish that love me. And my work. I'm nobody.

Who am I? I’m nobody. I was cut from every team in high school. I didn’t go to an Ivy League college.

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August 26, 2024
OUT OF THE PAST
The New Yorker

OUT OF THE PAST

At the beginning of “The Spirit of the Beehive” (1973), Víctor Erice’s sublime first feature, a travelling projectionist arrives at a remote Castilian village, bearing a print of James Whale’s “Frankenstein.”

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August 26, 2024
FUTURE IMPERFECT
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FUTURE IMPERFECT

“Hum,” Helen Phillips’s third novel, begins with a needle being drawn, steadily and irreversibly, across a woman named May’s face.

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August 26, 2024
THE NARAYANS
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THE NARAYANS

Mrs. Narayan was small, dark-skinned, oval-faced. She had a wonderful singsong voice.

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August 26, 2024
THE INFILTRATORS
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THE INFILTRATORS

Who’ leading the way in investigating far-right extremists: FBI. agents or leftist vigilantes?

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August 26, 2024