The infants and children we treat are often unable to breathe on their own; they may have aggressive cancers or complex fungal infections; they may have starved for months while migrating to the ...

Where did I find affirmation in a book so enamored of the abyss? (Images of dark, empty spaces, reservoirs of nonbeing, fill the text: “cavern,” “breach,” “void,” “wound.”) Nor am I alone: generations ...

The rules of the Louisiana Nutria Rodeo are simple: From the strike of midnight on a Friday morning in February, your kill crew has forty hours to shoot as many swamp rats as possible. You can hunt in ...

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When each day brings more news than we are used to seeing in a week, and the kind of news that only the most catastrophic imagination can accommodate, we find ourselves talking about the Reichstag ...

The parent in question protested that a cheaper instrument would “damage or destroy” his son’s talent. The names of all students have been changed. There are at least $175 million in unused funds ...

The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants, by Adam Goodman. Princeton University Press. 336 pages. $29.95. What we imagine when we think of deportation proceedings, if we ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point rehung a painting of a Confederate Civil War general in its library; kindergarteners will now be taught to identify the muzzle, barrel, and trigger of a gun; ...

When I was a young reporter, I envied my elders’ ability to write obituaries of famous people. Having the last word on someone renowned seemed to me like high-end journalism, especially when it ...

From all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came. I was told before arriving that I would probably be a “sight” for the village; I took this to mean ...

For me, as for many others, the reading of detective stories is an addiction like tobacco or alcohol. The symptoms of this are: Firstly, the intensity of the craving — if I have any work to do, I must ...

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