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A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen 1

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In order to re member yourself and your mother, you examine the paper fragments of your past. Sometime before the fall of 1990, you visit your mother in what you remember…

A YouTube View of Deion Sanders

A YouTube View of Deion Sanders 3

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past Saturday, the revamped, unranked University of Colorado football team coached by Deion Sanders shocked the sports world by upsetting, on the road and in hundred-degree-plus heat, last year’s national…

A Departure from Reality

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In order to re member yourself and your mother, you examine the paper fragments of your past. Sometime before the fall of 1990, you visit your mother in what you remember…

Will the Rains Extinguish Burning Man?

Will the Rains Extinguish Burning Man? 7

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last Thursday was a typically atypical day at Burning Man—the last before a series of atypically atypical days. It began, for me, with a bike ride with some friends to the…

How “This Fool” Became the Summer’s Best Comedy

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Early in Hulu’s “This Fool,” a Los Angeles man named Julio (Chris Estrada) indulges in a fantasy only he would find seductive. It’s the night of his thirty-first birthday—a milestone he’s…

See the Lineup for the 2023 New Yorker Festival

See the Lineup for the 2023 New Yorker Festival 20

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Join us! See the full lineup and purchase tickets. For the twenty-fourth year, the pages of The New Yorker will come to life for three days in New York City. The…

“Swift Justice” Looks Inside a Sharia Courtroom

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In August, 2021, when tens of thousands of government officials, interpreters, and Westernized élites fled Afghanistan following the Taliban’s capture of Kabul, they were joined by nearly the entire foreign press…

Who Owns This Country?

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story                           This is drawn from “This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America.” Sourse: newyorker.com Rate this item:1.002.003.004.005.00Submit…