Probes
Brian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations, or Two Boars,” Ch. 2. People feel distress. So do pigs. Living and learning on an English farm.
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From the Archives: How to keep thinking and acting during and after the Apocalypse. Daniel Gawthrop has some practical suggestions.
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Brian Fawcett, age 18, from northern British Columbia, arrives at his uncle’s and aunt’s pig farm in Sussex, England, and comes-of-age as two 400-pound boars charge into battle.
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Vian Andrews’ dispatches from the Umbrian countryside welcome the light and rage against its dying.
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David Shields’ 2010 manifesto, “Reality Hunger,” about the state of contemporary writing. Time for a second look.
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Canadian writer Vian Andrews and his wife moved from Vancouver to Umbria in Italy. Here are his “scribbles” from a new place in the world.
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Stan Persky reflects on the ex-prez’s Jan. 6 coup attempt, and the danger that the “next coup” poses to democracy in a post-truth era.
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Michael Boughn on quitting cigarettes, and quitting Facebook. Compare and contrast.
Read MoreMax Fawcett searches for the prophet of atheism.
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Margaret Randall is thinking about statues, racism, and history.
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