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August 25, 1945

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Featured Pick

fiction

It Isn’t the Money I Mind

Shirley Jackson

Fiction, from 1945: Now I know I just didn’t have sense enough to see the baby had talent.

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a reporter at large

MORTS POUR LA PATRIE

Irwin Shaw

profiles

SOCRATES AFLOAT

Brendan Gill