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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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No Republican Shall Inherit
… a four-poster bed, legally married. What’s different? Jared points to a painting the couple commissioned, his hands resting at bottom left: “Well, it’s … They’d seen it happen all their lives. A friend would die—HIV, old age, cancer—and the family would annul the …
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Dancing Days
… years. And yet, in the last few months, my walks have also grown more programmatic (doctor says I need to … in a tire. This, I should add, has nothing to do with the community, but rather with the machine inside me, which … place—eviscerating the relentless sunshine—to expose the complex systems underneath. Or above, as is the case today, …
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Vestiges of the Socialist Time
… so long in captivity that they couldn’t—they starved and died. It’s said that elephant bones still litter the jungle … here, even if he was Anglican and he had lived here before. Also, all of the remains were moved about twenty years ago. … the pictures. The dispatches are then published on our website, and two are selected for inclusion in each issue of …
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COVID Dreams
… dreamed about my teeth. It just felt like they needed to come out, and so I reached into my mouth and pulled out … say, “Oh, we know this physician, and that physician, who died of COVID—and, oh, this other one died too.” And they all begin to share their stories of the …
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The Air Keeps It Interesting
… she said. Retiring, I learned, was a nice way of saying decommissioning, and decommissioning was a nice way of saying … aboard up a small ladder as some of the ground crew steadied the craft. A dozen more men held ropes attached to the … was slow and subtle. St. John worked huge, flat-foot pedals and a large wooden wheel alongside his seat, to raise …
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Vaqueros
… when Mexico celebrates its rebel yell against Spain, is also the weekend when the season’s first pilgrims arrive in … the countryside. “I identify with that life—and with this community. These guys are from cities, but they identify … of the Village People, of pride parades, of the chiseled bodies in Chelsea, a moving exhibition of the male form. The …
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