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  • Newyork

    Who’s Afraid of Reissued Books?

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that literary critics are the most annoying people in the world. They’re elitist, or undignified. They’re divisive. They’re snobs. Their profession is, in fact, dead, and has been for decades. And upon realizing ...

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  • Books

    Saying Goodbye to the Dead. (Again.)

    Jerry Garcia died in 1995. The band bid fans farewell in 2015. This weekend, Dead & Company will close out its Final Tour. Why can’t we stop quitting one of rock’s beloved acts?

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  • Newyork

    Poem #1022

    When the cold optics of domination are left unchallenged, the dead die twice. The cruel euphemism of profit and the genocidal language of extermination meet their answer in Daniel Borzutzky’s “Poem #1022.” Borzutzky, in this selection from “Written ...

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  • News

    A Patient Declared Dead Is Found in a Body Bag Gasping for Air

    A 66-year-old woman was taken to a funeral home, where workers discovered her chest moving, a report said. An Alzheimer’s care center in Iowa that declared her dead was fined $10,000.

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