“This Old Man,” by Roger Angell
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A profile of the poet Nathaniel Mackey
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How Colm Tóibín Burrowed Inside Thomas Mann’s Head
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E. B. White on “The Meaning of Democracy”
In the summer of 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, the editors of The New Yorker received a letter from the Writers’ War Board, asking for a statement on "The Meaning of Democracy." "It presumably is our duty to comply with such a request, and it is certainly our pleasure," E. B. White wrote, in response. "Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is."
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