Dear Polly,
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About three summers ago I was on a Manhattan-bound L train, itchy and irritated in the way that all New Yorkers are when they’re ready to get back to the city, when we pulled up at the Bedford Avenue stop and, among…
by Mark Bibbins, Editor
Quit the Breaks
People are dying faster than even dentists are dying than even octopuses are dying than even elephants are dying What worries me is everything Flawed masculinity My outlook in bushes a…
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★★★★★ Genial blue skies in the west gave no hint of the churning dark ocher-gray mass in the eastern sky…
Today is a terrible day to get stabbed in Britain. I mean, assuming you want to live. Which, if you’re in Britain, may not be the correct assumption. Actually, I can understand the upside to suddenly seeing the quick glint of a blade and then a fade to black, with the…
If you’ve got 40 bucks burning a hole in your pocket you could do worse than drop it on the Nancy Mitford history collection from New York Review Books. I mean, they’ve got some other nice collections, but I’d put my money on the Mitford. You know, assuming your other book needs have already been met.
“Researchers have reported the first case of human-to-human transmission of the new strain of bird flu that has emerged in China.”
