The Magazine

September 13, 2021

Reporting

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The Critics

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The Talk of the Town

Steve Coll on the defeat in Afghanistan; the storm oracle of New Orleans; vaccine passports; Paul Schrader; Woniya Thibeault’s survival skills.

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Shouts & Murmurs

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Cartoons

Fiction

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Puzzles & Games Dept.

Poems

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Goings On About Town

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