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“This is a foreign feeling. Reality television and telenovelas and K-dramas have made you wary. What’s a relationship without conflict?” Flash fiction by Bryan Washington.http://nyer.cm/6NXrosi 

In a new book, the media historian Kate Eichhorn argues that we have we have a right to forget—and that social media is preventing us from doing so.http://nyer.cm/XjIqEV8 

What is money? From where does it derive its value? As new cryptocurrencies surface, we ask the same questions we contemplated when money was first created.http://nyer.cm/o6Iuwvn 

"If you give Ebola enough time to transmit from human to human, then an unpredictable event can occur. How likely is it that Ebola could change suddenly?”http://nyer.cm/RpYjHmw 

“The regular business of watching Morrison go at other authors’ texts, as an analyst and interrogator, was a pleasure,” @untitledproject writes of his experience as a student of Toni Morrison.http://nyer.cm/pxLNhCh 

“Letterkenny” is laced with more sex and drugs and violence than your standard half-hour comedy, but it’s balanced out by a profusion of surreal, almost over-the-top structural devices.http://nyer.cm/6S5yMzh 

It looks as if the country, abetted by its President, is self-destructing, @johncassidy writes.http://nyer.cm/NftRozY 

White-supremacist terrorism is nothing new, but this sickeningly specific instantiation of it—lone shooter, assault rifle, online manifesto, a link to a live stream—appears to be contagious.http://nyer.cm/ndOCnyQ 

It was well over a hundred degrees outside, and more than a thousand people held up signs that offered messages—“Trump Not Welcome Here,” “There’s Blood On Your Little Hands,” “Make Racists Afraid Again”—as well as shade.http://nyer.cm/VBDjl8d 

.@Deardarkness remembers Toni Morrison, who “gave us beautiful language as an assumption of selfhood, but also as a mirror to look into.”http://nyer.cm/yRk5jUg 

“Her novels were the boundary between herself and her readers, an instrument of intellectual self-protection, but we violated the boundary, almost deliriously,” @dstfelix writes, of Toni Morrison’s impact.http://nyer.cm/zTl13Bz 

Revisit some of Toni Morrison's writing from our magazine, including a short story about the relationship between a mother and daughter during the civil-rights era and an essay on the 2016 election.http://nyer.cm/w1uCyBj 

Psychiatrists and psychologists weigh in on the mental and cultural significance of yelling, and how anger is metabolized.http://nyer.cm/jnf1YCO 

"The Social Network," a film whose trailer featured an iconic cover of Radiohead's "Creep," has had a profound influence on movie trailers.http://nyer.cm/bbwpQlB 

“My mind touches daily on the work done in that room”: @untitledproject shares his fondest recollection of Toni Morrison, who was his college professor for a semester.http://nyer.cm/kRYASg1 

The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Congo began more than a year ago. As of last Saturday, 2,753 cases of the virus have been reported.http://nyer.cm/TxaafgU 

Combustion engines have helped create a climate crisis. The quest for oil has led our soldiers into war. And the road has become a setting for violent, systemic racism. Are cars worth it?http://nyer.cm/UDtKdpv 

When Françoise Gilot’s memoir about her relationship with Picasso first came out, in 1964, his supporters denounced her as a spiteful ingrate—they believed that his genius justified the harm he did to others. Now the popular view is at the opposite pole.http://nyer.cm/srqKB21