A Kalyee Srithnam Film: New Fiction
“You loved me because you thought I was someone else — someone special, someone magical. You couldn’t see the truth, hidden behind my shimmer of illusions.”
September 14, 2026
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“There Are Children Who Are Great Sages”: Just a Few Thoughts and Pictures for Rosh Hashana, in a Fraught Year
On Rosh Hashanah, the more a person bends their mind and humbles themself, the better.
September 11, 2026
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The Twin Towers, 1974: Photograph by May Pang
Will it ever be possible to remember the Twin Towers before they fell?
September 10, 2026
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SABOTAGE: New Science Fiction by Mark Laporta
On a planet plagued by deadly “accidents,” engineer Cyril Night and his biomechanical falcon must outwit a rogue terraforming intelligence before an abandoned colony becomes uninhabitable.
September 9, 2026
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Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel
Dog parks may offer something social media can’t: regular, low-stakes encounters with people unlike ourselves that can build empathy, tolerance and trust.
September 8, 2026
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How North Carolina Wasted the Chance To Fix Hog Pollution
Twenty-five years after North Carolina struck a landmark deal with Smithfield Foods to clean up hog pollution, thousands of waste lagoons remain, and the people who helped craft the agreement explain how it went so badly wrong.
September 5, 2026
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The real reason many Americans are cutting ties with their parents and siblings
A sociologist argues that family estrangement isn’t an epidemic of selfishness or “therapy culture,” but a clash over what relatives owe one another.
September 3, 2026
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Goings-on About Town: May Pang Takes Her Photographs on Tour
May Pang is a gifted photographer, and the candid images she took during one of John Lennon’s most productive periods are now touring the West and Southwest.
September 3, 2026
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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin
Mandarin, by Bartok, is the Early 20th Century’s idea of making a plea for social justice. At least he had good intentions.
September 3, 2026
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Contrarian Movie Reviews, Part 247: “Rangoon” is Actually Very Good!
We make our case for a spectacular, overstuffed wartime musical Indian romance that flopped upon release but deserves to be remembered as a classic.
September 2, 2026
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