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A Veterinarian’s Soothing Compassion, in “The Passing”
The documentary short by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas follows Michael Mullen on his rounds attending to pets and their owners. Source link
The Woman Who Helped Send a Spacecraft to Europa, Jupiter’s Icy Moon
Just after noon on Monday, a SpaceX rocket stood on the same launchpad that once sent men to the moon. Hurricane Milton had recently ripped across Florida, whipping up...
Do They Really Believe That Stuff?
Over the last couple of months, a neighbor of ours has been upping her sign game. In addition to the usual stuff—“Law and Order,” “Not My President,” “No Legal...
The House That Alvin Ailey Built
In 1960, the twenty-nine-year-old Alvin Ailey premièred his landmark work, “Revelations,” with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the company he’d founded to showcase Black culture through dance. This...
Lore Segal Will Keep Talking Through Her Stories
Lore Segal, who died on Monday, at the age of ninety-six, published her first short story in The New Yorker in 1961, and her final one two weeks ago,...
Even in Her Memoir, Melania Trump Remains a Mystery
Back in 2012, some years before her husband, Donald Trump, was elected President of the United States, Melania Trump tweeted a picture of a beluga whale, its glistening white...
Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries
My job is to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and leave it to good old Jesus and the rest of his family to deal with everything...
The Mordant Intimacy of Cécile Desprairies’s “The Propagandist”
Years ago, a man who was then my fiancé gave me a mourning ring, inscribed with the name and dates of birth and death of a Frenchwoman who lived...