Hope Is Good. Disappointment Is Better
What the best novels teach us about the virtues of disillusionment
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Why I Wrote a Poem Imagining Donald Trump’s Attempted Assassination
Listen to Steven Heighton read “Fake News,” in which an American bodyguard imagines taking a bullet for his president
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Digital Distraction Is Bad for Creativity
What a silent evening with an author I admired taught me about solitude and writing well
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An Occurrence on the Beach at Varosha
The evening’s last light has drained out of the sky behind the procession of dead hotels lining the beach. Up to twenty storeys high, they were built so close together …
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Baffled in Ashdod, Blind in Gaza
E.A.: former Israeli Defence Forces soldier who, in August 2010, posted photos of herself smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. She labelled her Facebook album “The army… best time …
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Bystanders
Air this thin turns anyone into a mystic. Dulling the mind, it dulls distinctions, slurs the border between abstractions—right and wrong—or apparent opposites—dead and alive, past and present, you and …
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Noughts & Crosses
– – – – – Original Message – – – – – From: <j.in.corydon@hotmail.com> To: <nella_biagini@sympatico.ca> Sent: April 22, 2007 1:16 AM Subject: RE: Hello? n, yes yes i did …
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Some Other Just Ones
The printer who sets this page with skill, though he may not admire it. singers of solo expertise who defer and find harmonies instead. Anyone whose skeleton is susceptible to …
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The Dead Are More Visible
A graveyard shift meant time and a half, but she would have worked these January nights, flooding the park rinks, for regular pay. She worked alone and liked the peace …
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