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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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Edmund Wilson’s Cape Cod Landscape
… while offering the vitality of a still viable fishing community. During the summer it attracted crowds of artistic … on a long nature walk around the pond. In the early journals Wilson shows a predilection for seascapes on the New … involved periods of geographical separation. Margaret would die as the result of an accidental fall in 1932, while she …
Seeking to Undo Jim Crow
… $34.95. When, not so very long ago, a black patriarch died in the Eastern North Carolina town of Tarboro, his body … In that period the black owner-driver of a small taxi company in Norfolk sent his two sons each summer to work on … Lewis indicates, were less interested in NAACP courtroom points and stiffer teacher backbones than in “immediate and …
Virginia In the Window
… and politely behind her back by others of the family who also thought that they owned her. But all of us were wrong … herself to gentleness, good manners, and extraordinary common sense. She was a poor woman from Virginia, which … of her Virginia gentility. She had married young and would die young, leaving the six of us to brood about the wrongs …
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So Help Me God
… to her, I can see. I’m checking the digital code which has come up UNAVAILABLE. Sometimes it reads NO DATA GIVEN which … receiver, and speaking with the broad A’s of a Canadian! Also he’s making me nervous so I am not thinking as clearly … It was after Pitman’s partner and close friend Reed Loomis died, Pitman began to drink mornings. This was early in …
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Antarctic Dreams
… of farm, factory, and other equipment never meant to commingle in a single entity. All told, it weighed half a … or unbolt it and “just go around it” for the sake of expediency. Anything to avoid losing more time.  The drill … the depth of the hole itself. At around midnight on January 26, with the drill 2,565 feet below the surface, the water …
Spain Today: Is the Party Over?
… night on the town. Everywhere one turns today one hears complaints about the political situation, moans of disbelief … International World’s Fair (Seville), and the Cultural Capitalship of Europe (Madrid). Whereas in 1982 only 23 percent … Finnegan wrote in The New Yorker in 1992, “for all the medieval images that still cling to the country, “the real …
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