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January 11, 2016

The New Yorker cover for January 11, 2016: "The Great Thaw,” by Marcellus Hall.

"The Great Thaw,” by Marcellus Hall.

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Anne Carson

Fiction by Anne Carson: “What is the price of desolation, and who pays.”

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