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Virginia Woolf had portrayed an analogous stress between unity and fragmentation a decade earlier, with Mrs. Dalloway gazing at herself within the mirror: That was her self—pointed; dartlike; particular. That …

Typically the axon highways nearly appear to pave themselves. My daughter, Laura, started to learn swiftly, the summer time earlier than kindergarten. (“It’s laborious to consider that ‘knock’ begins with …

Expensive Pepper is an advice-column comedian by Liana Finck. When you’ve got questions for Pepper, the advice-giving canine, about how one can act in troublesome conditions, please direct them to …

“That’s his front room,” Nelson’s lighting director, Budrock Prewitt, advised me on the highway to Camden. He meant the stage—particularly, a twelve-by-thirty-two-foot maroon rug that Nelson’s crew rolls out at …

Is studying dying? This yr, as screens and social-media apps continued to fragment our consideration, it felt like we lastly started to know that there’s a disaster at hand. In …

Through the 1959 session of the Louisiana state legislature, Governor Earl Lengthy, the much less well-known youthful brother of Senator Huey Lengthy, “went off his rocker,” because the tickled author …

My father liked canine, and so did I. Earlier than the Labs, we had two collies, an English setter, a French bulldog, a Boston bull, and a raccoon named Pete, …

Our cartoon caption was misplaced in a blizzard! Remedy the clues to assist us discover it. Every reply is seven letters lengthy and curls round one of many numbered areas …

The New Yorker doesn’t simply let go of the previous stuff. Just lately, our copy division retired the hyphen we’d saved in “in-box” for longer than anybody ought to hold …

The choreographer Marla Phelan is within the start of stars—not Barbra Streisand or Woman Gaga however the cosmic sort. Working with the astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart, she has made “Beginning + …