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Sticking the Landing of the Pandemic in Taiwan
Moving past COVID-zero into a safer future.
Cafecito
I think of my abuelita's stories. These tales often began with a declaration that she’d been born four months after the Titanic set sail. With a laugh, she’d swirl her ever present cup of coffee and add that the ship sank five days later. Meanwhile, she persevered. She said that it was coffee that kept her going.
A Nigerian Poet’s Dangerous Amorous Episodes
In the traditions that established earlier voices in modern Africa poetry, sociopolitical maladies have remained an arch theme. In the words of Omafune Onoge, what rocks African poetry most is the crisis of consciousness.
Dead Souls, Brooklyn Edition
A jam-packed episode for another jam-packed week of New York news, with Yoav Gonen of The City and Chris Sommerfeldt of the Daily News talking about all the candidates in Brooklyn who didn’t even know they were on the ballot (including one candidate who isn’t even alive), a dispatch from Alex Brook Lynn in Paris about sending formula across the Atlantic to frantic N.Y. moms, and Caroline Lewis of WNYC and Gothamist explaining what’s happening with the state’s rollout of legal weed and with the people who did (and still are) illegally selling it here.
Election Denial Is Not a Problem for Bipartisan Caucus
One in five GOP members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus voted to support legal challenges to the 2020 election results.
Aníkúlápò – A Short Story
Ìyá Àgbà Every ẹsẹ of Odù, every word of ìwúre, every atom of àfọ̀ṣẹ that would make this day had been wept for, sweated over and bled on by Ìyá Àgbà. Patience had never been her thing, she wanted all her things done now!
Seven
Before the Russian officers drove my grandparents out of their house at the end of the war, the German Nazis had driven them out of the house at the start of it.
MELODRAMA-RAMA: WHERE DO I BEGIN?
Katharine Coldiron's new column Melodrama-Rama takes readers on a beguiling tour of the world of melodrama.