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Letter From The Editor
Dear friends, I worry that I am not a curious person. When a possible tangent presents itself to me I say, “No thank you,” I think because I am disciplined and busy and if I said yes to tangents I would not be able to do all of the other things I do, like…
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SOAPBOX: Is This Woke 3?
Given the recent blue wave, the joke has become that Woke 3 has emerged. But the question is whether this reaction is different from the pendulum swings of our recent past.
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Artificio y Engaño
i. un autoretrato you try to make yourself unbendable, try to peel away the spotted fingers that roam you as though you are wax, but you were never born a virgin bride. when you kneel to scrub your body, the hair…
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You Must
“Run through Chopin nocturne for fun. It’s harder than yesterday and you are frustrated. Return to fugue. Play left hand with right hand. It’s confusing. Start to cry. Close lid and promise yourself that you will make more progress tomorrow.”
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Banquet
Returning to Uncle Father wasn’t easy, but we both had too much at stake for a standoff. I knew he wouldn’t jeopardize the pedigree, for we were endangered practitioners of the much condemned tradition of snake preaching. Although the family was a long way from West Virginia, having relocated for the medicinal properties of lake…
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Strain Hardening
To comfort a friend I kiss her forehead and then each cheekbone and then the bridge of her nose and then each eye. I use the crook of my elbow to cover her face and to anchor her to my shoulder. This friend is delicate like someone gone weak with laughter. I match her breath…
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You Can See Everything
On that movie you need to go see because everyone is going to be talking about it for the next six months.
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Buenos Aires Taught Me to Stop Saving
A Nass writer lays out the blueprints for the unstructured, ubiquitous, sometimes expensive socializing in Buenos Aires.
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Letter From The Editor
Dear friends, I don’t have much to say this week. I’m thinking about the atmosphere, the pollutants in it, tangible and intangible. Thinking about how we’ve been sick in the head making the air make us sicker. This has been a daunting week, and, yes, I don’t have much to say, so here’s a list…
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SOAPBOX: We Ugly Tourists
Are we, in our tacit approval of the aspiration to work on AI, ugly tourists?

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