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In Untitled Goose Game, you (the goose) terrorize villagers partly in pursuit of a goal that is revealed only in the game’s final moments, and partly just for the sheer hell of it.http://nyer.cm/NVguesT 

“My wife said, ‘I don’t know how else to put this.’ She moved her hand in my direction. ‘He’s developed the ability to fly.’ “ Read a short story by Jospeh O’Neill.http://nyer.cm/u70jPWq 

.@mashagessen on how the Trump administration, which is itself “a festival of violence, cruelty, and fear," celebrates Halloween.http://nyer.cm/DHyRpn0 

"Fight Club" was released 20 years ago this fall. How did it become a tool with which to think about masculinity?http://nyer.cm/bVLUr0T 

Since last year, the rate of deforestation in Brazil has increased nearly 40 per cent, and tens of thousands of miners have made their way into indigenous reserves. The impact on the communities living there, and the world, could be catastrophic.http://nyer.cm/AvEejXG 

According to a poll released by the New York Times, President Trump “remains really competitive in the states likeliest to decide the election, despite all that’s happened to him,” the journalist @Nate_Cohn said.http://nyer.cm/a4GmzqE 

Adam Hochschild writes about mass deportations in the United States in the early 1900s, and a crescendo of anti-immigrant rhetoric that will sound distinctly familiar today.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/11/when-america-tried-to-deport-its-radicals …

In the latest episode of @NewYorkerRadio, take a trip to the Irish border, where the memory of the Troubles has thrown a wrench into Brexit.http://nyer.cm/hHfpBRp 

Several hundred people were imprisoned at Ellis Island during the Palmer Raids, the country’s first mass deportation of political dissidents in the 20th century.http://nyer.cm/s0DmWFL 

Please enjoy this single portobello mushroom on a bed of kale that was previously used as a garnish at the raw bar.http://nyer.cm/T9KqYxC 

.@dchiasso reviews Charles Wright’s massive new volume of selected poems, which spans 50 years of work.http://nyer.cm/LOWhGAc 

Booth Tarkington is one of only three writers to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. Why has he been largely forgotten?http://nyer.cm/teqc0zu 

.@JohnLahrwriter profiles the director Todd Haynes, who, in film after film, including his latest, “Dark Waters,” challenges the conventions of Hollywood storytelling.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/11/todd-haynes-rewrites-the-hollywood-playbook …

Nick Paumgarten writes about his years as a recreational hockey player, and the string of concussions that left him in a dizzying fatigue.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/11/my-year-of-concussions …

The takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which happened 40 years ago, haunts U.S.-Iran relations to this day, @wrightr writes.http://nyer.cm/NLPAlSi 

“All of us here realize we’re fucking the environment,” a miner working illegally on indigenous land said. “It’s not like we want to—it’s that we haven’t found any alternative means to survive.”http://nyer.cm/O5fDaZG 

Consider the untold gallons of clean, potable water that would be wasted by my crying in the shower.http://nyer.cm/At10E0c 

.@jonleeanderson reports from Brazil, where illegal gold mining is estimated to bring in more than a billion dollars annually—and where the rate of deforestation has increased nearly 40 per cent since last year.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/11/blood-gold-in-the-brazilian-rain-forest …