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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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Stones for Jacob’s Pillow
… Pillow A great-uncle of mine had been a Forty Niner and accomplished his long trek with the full complement of Indian … gold. Two generations after, I found myself turning also into the far West for the first time and thrilled … all that means of standard gauge, conducting, and easy gradient. Everything had been pre-surveyed for them, smoothed, …
Shall Slavery Come South?
… Shall Slavery Come South? The ex-Confederacy has embarked on the … taken its place. I prefer not to call them the intellectuals; the intellectual of an industrial plutocracy has had no … they would be told that at the factory they would become ladies and gentlemen, eat roast beef and plum pudding, ride …
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Mandela’s Prosecutor
… for fighting against the system of apartheid. David is uncomfortable, I can tell. Throughout the conversations about … a car accident. Yet there were people like them who, though also steeped in their own circumstances, did break away and … on you,’ ” the interrogator tells me. “ ‘You’re going to die. And the person that’s going to hang you is one of your …
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Filming the End of the World in Metamora, Indiana
… he was a teacher he knew a couple students were going to die just by looking them in the eye. “And two weeks later …” … Paul backed out of the room. In my head, I pictured Paul coming back in a black robe. I snapped pictures as if the … freelancing, I wait tables when cash is tight. I also build websites, create videos, design magazines and layouts—any …
Beau Law and Mississippi High-Rollers
… gambling, duels, and pursuit of fair women, New Orleans embodied many of the attributes of its founder. It was as if … and the royal revenue to 300 millions. France will become the retreat of the happy and the refuge of … fencer Beau Law mortally wounded his opponent. He was also out of favor with the French because he had eloped with …
Early Deaths
… little room at the end of the hall, voicing snatches of welcome to his hands and heels, as he waited solitary for Mrs. … makeshift bedroom there was a showing of light with some false warmth in it.”.. .the earliest pipe of half-awakened … born. Her ballpoint, flying over Drucilla’s blue paper, steadied by Mobjack Bay Houses: “Patty, the trip is really out …
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