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Yesterday — May 17th 2024U.S.

Funny, Painful, Etc.

Reader mail on American education and ‘Saturday Night Live.’

Before yesterdayU.S.

Bleakness and Light

On Charles Dickens, Yefim Bronfman, etc.

Lord Mayor of London David Wootton (left) and Britain's Prince Charles look at a portrait of Charles Dickens during a visit to the Dickens Museum in London in 2012.

Within the Ukraine War

On a podcast with Illia Ponomarenko, Ukrainian war reporter.

Galina Shevtsova in front of her apartment building, Mariupol, Russian-occupied Ukraine, November 16, 2022. She lives in the basement with her husband, Pavel. Their apartment higher in the building was destroyed by Russian forces the previous March.

Britannia Rules

Reader mail on things British.

A residence in the village of Dorridge, West Midlands, England, May 2024

Fear, and Love, of Needles

Reader mail on vinyl records, running, and more.

An Audio-Technica staff member places a needle on a record at the IFA consumer-technology fair in Berlin, Germany, September 1, 2022.

Fit to Print

Reader mail on reading newspapers, the French language in Michigan, etc.

Reading a newspaper at a trailer park in Sarasota, Fla., 1941

A Sinister Singling Out

Notes on Eurovision, Israel, Hamas, etc.

People hold Palestinian flags during a protest against Israeli participation in the Eurovision Song Contest ahead of the second semi-final in Malmö, Sweden, May 9, 2024.

In the Face of Hell, Perseverance

Notes on Ukraine and Russia.

A firefighter works at the site of a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 4, 2024.

Man of the Book

On a podcast with Mohamad Jebara, scholar and explainer of Islam.

A fragment of a Koran manuscript is seen in the library at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

A Mad Song and More

Reader mail on hating, cousin marriage, etc.

Attendee Judith Hawkins poses next to a display at the <I>Mad</I>-magazine booth during Comic-Con Preview Night in San Diego, Calif., July 20, 2016.

Age Issues

Youth, maturity, and the question of wisdom.

Klaus Mäkelä, the Finnish conductor, leads the Orchestre de Paris in a rehearsal on July 7, 2020.

In the Midst of an Assault

Notes on Ukraine and Russia.

A scene in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 22, 2024, after a Russian missile attack

Alma Mater: A Story

A letter from a retired fighter pilot who, with his wife, set up a scholarship in chemistry at Kansas State.

Campus of Kansas State University, in an image posted to X on August 25, 2023

A Renaissance Couple

On a podcast with Simone Sepe and Saura Masconale, law-and-economics scholars.

Tale of the Tip, Etc.

Reader mail on the anxiety of tipping and more.

Duos, Etc.

Reader mail on Lerner & Loewe, “The Master and Margarita,” the Confederacy, and more.

The composer Frederick Loewe (left) and the lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner — the famous “Lerner & Loewe”

One Green Jacket, Etc.

Reader mail on Condoleezza Rice, Gabrielle Starr, and more.

Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, then a new member of Augusta National Golf Club, looks on during the annual Masters Par-3 Contest in Augusta, Ga., April 10, 2013.

Shouts & Murmurs

On a music podcast, beginning with James P. Johnson and his ‘Carolina Shout.’

James P. Johnson, c. May 1946

Mum’s the Word

The national debt, the federal budget deficit, and the relative silence of politicians.

‘Warmonger,’ ‘Traitor,’ ‘Nazi,’ Etc.

The U.S. House passes aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Some like it, some don’t.

A woman prays during a service of St. John the Baptist church in Przemyśl, Poland, near the Ukrainian border, as people flee the Russian invasion, March 13, 2022.

A Struggle to Survive

Notes on Ukraine and Russia.

People take shelter inside a subway station during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2024.

A Voice from Kansas, a Voice for Freedom

On a podcast with Vernon L. Smith.

‘Write Like Bill’

On this summer’s William F. Buckley Jr. Communicators Workshop.

William F. Buckley Jr.; Michael Jordan

A Book, Found

A reader tells a story — about how he found ‘The Master and Margarita.’

Bookshop assistant Howard Rawson-Humphries watches over the books on sale inside Cofian Books, known locally as ‘Albie's Bookshop,’ in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, September 15, 2018.
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