April 23, 2025
- Eliza Griswold on Mary Magdalene
- Scaachi Koul on reading an A.I.-generated biography of herself
- The woman who taught Socrates about the philosophy of love
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“On Friday morning, I got another call from my sister, this time inviting me over for dinner at the Mahogany Street house. She would make pork-and-fennel dumplings for me. Although I’m a native Beijinger, I don’t really like dumplings, especially not ones with fennel in them.”
“Getting out of prison is like having a rotten tooth pulled from your mouth: it feels good to have it gone, but it’s hard not to keep touching at that hole. Raymond Gaspar served four years this time. He served them at a place in Tracy called the Deuel Vocational Institution, DVI. The only vocation he learned was making sure the drugs kept moving.”