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PERSONAL HISTORY
Story’s Endby Meghan O’Rourke
If I could find the right turning point in the narrative, then maybe, like Orpheus, I could bring my mother back from the dead…
LETTER FROM TURKEY
The View from the Standsby Elif Batuman
Beşiktaş is the underdog, the working-class team, known for the ardor of its fans…
POSTSCRIPT
REMEMBERING REVEREND GOMESby Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Peter Gomes contained a multitude of identities, each worn with a certain roguish sense of irony…
FICTION
Backboneby David Foster Wallace
Every whole person has ambitions, objectives, initiatives, goals. This one particular boy’s goal was to be able to press his lips to every square inch of his own body…
Editors’ Choice
Political Scene
George Packer, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Ryan Lizza on the budget battles in Washington and the Midwest.
