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Haruki Murakami bought a Ramones shirt from a secondhand store in Kyoto, but he can’t bring himself to wear it outside. “There are some limits when you’re over 70,” he writes.http://nyer.cm/utapKWS 

It seems there's a curious link between our minds and our feet.http://nyer.cm/JJiwCyg 

In “Jazz Images,” the late photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir conveys in images the French love of jazz and of its heroes.http://nyer.cm/1SomcCO 

“All these small coincidences had to happen to make the Beatles happen, and it does feel like some kind of magic,” Paul McCartney writes. “To this very day, it still is a complete mystery to me that it happened at all.”http://nyer.cm/syTsPtz 

The supertanker the F.S.O. Safer is not sinking. It is not on fire. It has not exploded. It is not leaking oil. Yet the crew of the ship, and every informed observer, expects disaster to occur soon. But how soon? A year? Six months? Two weeks? Tomorrow?http://nyer.cm/YynobCM 

Gabriel García Márquez explores the ruins of colonialism and capitalism in this 1976 story about a solitary, undying despot in the “house of power.” #NewYorkerArchivehttp://nyer.cm/EhXbeIY 

From 2016: What makes us engage in casual sex? Do we enjoy it? Does it benefit us in any way—or, perhaps, might it harm us?http://nyer.cm/6TaHuaj 

PS1’s fifth “Greater New York” survey show was slated to open in 2020 but necessarily postponed. The result feels like a time capsule, Peter Schjeldahl writes: “a collection of judgments that predate a period so tumultuous it feels like an age.”http://nyer.cm/zbIA8pK 

Who is the author of “Italian Villas and Their Gardens” and a co-author of “The Decoration of Houses,” an influential treatise on interior design? Guess, or see more clues, here.http://nyer.cm/jsZ2GmE 

It was Stephen Crane, more than any other novelist, who invented the American stoical sound—the tone of taciturn minimalism that Hemingway seemed to discover only after World War I is fully achieved in Crane’s work.http://nyer.cm/Kogi7nI 

The founder of the boutique adoption agency Always Hope carefully controlled all communication between prospective families and expectant mothers–some of whom, it turns out, didn’t exist.http://nyer.cm/nVU77Rt 

Born after the Civil War, Stephen Crane turned himself into its most powerful witness—and modernized the American novel.http://nyer.cm/DwIl0bT 

Celebrated for her First World War trilogy, Pat Barker has been reimagining the Trojan War through the eyes of its female victims. But what happens when gritty realism meets myth?http://nyer.cm/Z7pN8Pe 

COVID is only part of the crisis that students at Michele Clark High, in Chicago’s West Side, face—in the past year, there have been startling new levels of gun violence.http://nyer.cm/8ejfjjx 

“Brilliant, funny, meaningful”: S. N. Behrman reviews J. D. Salinger’s first novel. #NewYorkerArchivehttp://nyer.cm/EL56pOw 

The flooding of Glen Canyon was a crime, Edward Abbey, one of several writers and artists to float through the canyon before its inundation, once wrote. “Imagine the Taj Mahal or Chartes Cathedral buried in mud.” Now, drought is causing it to reëmerge.http://nyer.cm/OzxRfS6 

Despite a conspicuous lack of star athletes, vaccinated fans who could make it to the Coachella Valley this month were able to watch live tennis at Indian Wells, one of the world’s prettiest tennis venues.http://nyer.cm/u16qC8d 

“Sometimes they remind me of kids,” the photographer Jill Freedman writes of the police. “They believe in right and wrong, good and bad, good guys and bad guys, justice.”http://nyer.cm/uvsJkeQ 

In the “Bad Art Friend” saga, it seems Sonya Larson couldn’t quite sublimate her contempt for Dawn Dorland, @xwaldie writes: “She crafted a takedown in disguise.”http://nyer.cm/TglIb53