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In the May issue of Harper’s
@dbessner
lays out the forces that are destroying Hollywood;
@KPaoletta
sees the Republican primaries as farce; haunting the Vegas of the Ozarks; Joy Williams on Kafka; Jamaica Kincaid meets James Baldwin; and much more.
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Over the course of a year, Indian elephants in the eastern Himalayan floodplains buried five dead calves upside down in irrigation ditches on tea plantations.
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Have us, hold us, read us in print.
We’re really good on the page.
Buy the May issue here:
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“If I was lucky the town might have some powerful thing to reveal to me about this nation, a half-superstitious hope that was buoyed by my later watching, at the big-cat rescue outside town, dead chickens being fed to five unfearful white tigers.”
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The questions
@NikkiHaley
fielded were all horse race: Would she consider running on the No Labels ticket? Why was she winning over independents but not Republicans? Was she concerned about the polls? No, really, was she concerned about the polls?
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Words and images with positive or negative emotional valences make it more difficult for people with aphasia to find other, unrelated words.
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As of early 2023, the median TV writer-producer was making 23 percent less a week, in real dollars, than their peers a decade before.
@dbessner
on the forces that are destroying Hollywood
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Harper's Magazine Retweeted
Today’s read from
@npbowlin
captures the voices of a resort town and offers incredible insight into the wealth that many know — but seldom see.
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An orca acting alone killed a great white shark and ate its liver.
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Harper's Magazine Retweeted
“I met James Baldwin when I was about nineteen years old. I was a servant in a household. He came to that house as a party guest the night Richard Nixon was elected. I didn’t know who he was. I was just really someone off the boat.”
~ Jamaica Kincaid
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Harper's Magazine Retweeted
Jamaica Kincaid on James Baldwin: But I always feel that his main project, his main impulse, was to write novels, to write fiction, and that this horrible situation—the oppression, the violations of our society—got in his way.
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Researchers discovered that, when asked to deliver verdicts on criminal trials, GPT-4 is more likely to recommend a death sentence for defendants who speak African-American English.
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The words “easy,” “relax,” and “xaler” slow a sleeper’s heart, whereas the words “produce,” “materials,” and “slairetam” do not.
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“He sometimes felt that getting older was like inhabiting a mansion you couldn’t afford, so that you were forced to shut down one room after another, eventually entire wings, until you huddled in the kitchen, breaking up the furniture for firewood.”
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Low vocal pitch among men strikes people as more formidable and prestigious in societies with higher homicide rates.
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A joint letter from 9 former corrections officials in OK warned that staff were suffering “lasting trauma” and a “psychological toll” from “non-stop executions,” to which an appeals court judge responded by telling them to “suck it up” and “man up.”
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“Baumgartner begins to wonder what worms taste like and how it would feel to put a writhing, living worm in your mouth and swallow it.”
Paul Auster, from The Worms, April 2022
#RIP
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