September 2022

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Articles

• An American Catastrophe

  The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy

  Caitlin Dickerson

• I Smuggled My Laptop Past the Taliban So I Could Write This Story

  My escape from Afghanistan

  Bushra Seddique

• Rez Life

  Sterlin Harjo’s genre-mixing, cliché-exploding series captures coming of age as a Native kid like no TV show before it.

  David Treuer

• The Wedding Present

  As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after World War II. I’ve been thinking about the silence at the core of our exchange ever since.

  Cynthia Ozick

• That’s It. You’re Dead to Me.

  Suddenly everyone is “toxic.”

  Kaitlyn Tiffany

• Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?

  The sound of gentrification is silence.

  Xochitl Gonzalez

• Is She a Fluke? A Token? A Trailblazer?

  When women enter the frame

  Amy Weiss-Meyer

• A World Without White People

  Mohsin Hamid’s empty parable of race transformation

  Namwali Serpell

• ‘The Greatest Talker of His Time’

  Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal?

  Justin Driver

• Don’t Call Them Trash

  Romance novels celebrate female pleasure and aspiration.

  Sophie Gilbert

• An Ode to Being in a Band

  I can’t believe how good we sound.

  James Parker

• Hotel Earth

  James Longenbach

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