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Essays

Loving Animals to Death

How can we raise them humanely and then butcher them?

Essays

Loving Animals to Death

How can we raise them humanely and then butcher them?

ARTICLES

What Killed My Sister?

The answer—schizophrenia—only leads to more perplexing questions

On Loneliness

We value our solitude until it pinches

The Making of PoBiz Farm

After it became our permanent home, we overfilled it with overloved horses and dogs

The Presence of Absence

Our losses give vitality to our lives

A Whole Day Nearer Now

But all life’s passion not quite spent

What Killed My Sister?

The answer—schizophrenia—only leads to more perplexing questions

On Loneliness

We value our solitude until it pinches

The Making of PoBiz Farm

After it became our permanent home, we overfilled it with overloved horses and dogs

The Presence of Absence

Our losses give vitality to our lives

A Whole Day Nearer Now

But all life’s passion not quite spent

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editor's note

tuning up

The Ginger Boy

Minutes that changed the course of rock history

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fiction

commonplace book

Book essay

book reviews

The Bard of Suburbia

John Updike’s obsession with ordinary life made him the writer by whom we came to know ourselves

19th Nervous Breakdown

The struggle to keep it together

A Danger to Ourselves

Tough on other species, too

Whores de Combat

In search of adventure and engagement

The Fabulist

A literary critic’s ugly deception

Ready to Be Free

The end of the peculiar institution

An Irascible Artist

Separating man from myth