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    Nov 4

    Inside this week's issue of The New Yorker:

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  2. “I just want my freedom,” Ajay Kumar, an asylum seeker from India, said. “I didn’t ask for anything else.” In July he went on a hunger strike to protest the “animal-like treatment” he faced in ICE custody.

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  3. “I told them that we came here to fight for our family. To put my children ahead,” a woman from Guatemala recalled telling ICE agents.

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  4. Legend goes that this shoe belonged to a 20-year-old who lost a toe to gangrene after cutting it at a Blink-182 concert. Chilling!

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  5. In Yoko Ogawa’s masterly novel “The Memory Police,” objects that disappear from memory also disappear from real life.

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  6. By Rachel Eliza Griffiths, in this week's issue of the magazine. Read the full poem here:

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  7. Karl Ove Knausgaard on science, literature, and the unknowable.

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  8. On Monday, in a New York Times Op-Ed, Martin Scorsese outlined his view of the threats that superhero-centric Hollywood imposes on the film industry. What are those threats, exactly?

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  9. Since 2014, Mr. Trash Wheel has collected approximately 1,233 tons of trash and debris that otherwise would have flowed into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

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  10. A new book about The Economist is, in effect, a study of liberalism as it has been widely practiced over the course of 175 years.

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  11. “He’s laid the music down, and I’m the piano player,” Mark Ruffalo said, of working with the director Todd Haynes. “I can move within the structure. It’s a complex game. He’s challenging you, and he won’t walk away until it’s impeccable.”

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    "Tupac sometimes said that he thought of his songs as parables & now it is his own life...that seems almost allegorical." My latest Classics newsletter is on Connie Bruck's "The Takedown of Tupac," on the life of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur.

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  13. In the 20th century, after a crescendo of anti-immigrant rhetoric that will sound familiar today, the U.S. government attempted a mass deportation. What happened next?

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  14. For many employees, WeWork’s proposition was as intoxicating as it was vague. “I bought into it,” a designer said, of the company’s vision—“this new ‘office of the future.’ ”

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  15. Richard Nelson's new play, "Conversations During Difficult Times," takes a magnifying glass to the current moment.

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  16. And across the pond, the Parliament Choir rehearses in a 13th-century chapel deep inside Westminster.

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  17. In Putnam County, New York, a yellow lab named Hannah is trained by Connecticut police to fight cybercrime.

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  18. At the Met Breuer, the French movie star Isabelle Huppert parses paintings and words with the help of Google Translate.

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  19. The Borowitz Report: Surprisingly high turnout among smart voters in Kentucky has left Senator Rand Paul “terrified and shattered,” one of his aides has revealed.

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  20. What’s the Talk of the Town this week? At New York Comic Con, the "S.N.L." alum Laraine Newman takes a break from the autograph mill.

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  21. "Mary, now that Jesus is finally here (great job, BTW!) I’m thinking that we should do a thing on his bday. Could you arrange for there to be cupcakes or something next week, and send the Outlook invite to everyone?"

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