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“Old Story: October,” by Cynthia Zarin: “When is enough enough?”

The author “A Very Safe Place” reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.

Most Democratic voters say that they favor a wealth tax, but a California ballot initiative has plenty of liberal opponents.

The new spot in Brooklyn joins its siblings, Gertrude’s and Gertie, as a bastion of playfully Ashkenazi-ish cooking.

“Democracy,” by Sophie Cabot Black: “Always those horses up on the hill, each / To their own pasture.”

Is M.I. hopping our guardrails? If unchecked, it can lead to “recursive self-improvement,” such as dyeing a “fun streak of color” in her bangs.

My cousin Laura had a diva’s charisma and a siren’s voice. She also had a mysterious past. When she died, she left me to write the story of how she triumphed over hardship to become herself.

Trying to keep up.

In “I Am Tony,” a retrospective at the New Museum, the artist takes his remixing of the past to its outer limits.

A run-in with human snacks transformed Kobuk the Destroyer’s mother into a “problem bear.” A native of the Alaskan wilderness, the grizzly was possibly ruined by a dumpster or a cache of campsite refuse, teaching her that food was simply there for the taking—a…

Short reviews of recent releases.

Ellen Allien is an electronic musician, d.j., and producer who has adopted the mantle “the matriarch of Berlin techno.” In 1992, she was one of the first women to play a set at Bunker, known as the “hardest club on Earth,” situated in a former Nazi bomb shelter…

Usually, an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” is a validation of cultural relevance, even coolness. Less so if your name appeared on the show in a list, from 1976, of “people who dolphins are definitely more intelligent than.” Among the sub-dolphinites…

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