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Books
Misremembering the British Empire
How did the British become so blinkered about their nation’s imperial history?
By Maya Jasanoff
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Books
What Tecumseh Fought For
Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.
By Philip Deloria
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Second Read
“I Burn Paris” and the Temptation of Newly Topical Fiction
Bruno Jasieński’s strange novel about an epidemic, from 1929, is a beguiling and disorienting read in 2020.
By Pasha Malla
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Books
Briefly Noted
“The Next Great Migration,” “Max Jacob,” “Silence Is My Mother Tongue,” and ”The Cold Millions.”
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Newsletters
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Poems
“The Old Land”
“Life and death were simple and whole, / No need for explanation, let alone hope.”
By Aleksandar Hemon
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Poems
“The Great Beauty”
“Why can’t I // take evidence seriously?”
By Toi Derricotte
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The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “A for Alone”
The author reads her story from the November 2, 2020, issue of the magazine.
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Postscript
Remembering Daniel Menaker, a Lighthearted Champion of His Writers
The editor spent a quarter century at The New Yorker, where younger staffers recognized a kindred soul.
By Charles McGrath
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Kitchen Notes
A Lifetime of Pancakes, and Jamaican Banana Fritters
Hotcakes have been a boon to me this past year, as I’ve shifted my home cooking to maximize every haul from the grocery store.
By Bryan Washington
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