The New Yorker

“Despite Kurt’s torment—or in a determined attempt to overcome it—Nirvana made life-affirming music. It made me feel better.”

“Like many talented programmers at the time, he preferred to disappear into a fugue of coding and return with a gleaming piece of software.”

“In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.”

“I turned to a man next to me and asked what had brought him to the party. He rubbed his thumb and forefinger together and shouted, ‘Making money.’”

“How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years.”

“Today, the work done by Parrish in the nineteen-twenties and Gates in the nineteen-nineties forms the bedrock for books, documentaries, and a renewed reparations push that, a century after the massacre, is experiencing a groundswell of support.”

“The victims’ families were left deeply dissatisfied. Many of them wrote to officials, including Khrushchev, demanding a more thorough investigation. But nothing more was done, and the mysterious deaths of the nine skiers subsided into relative obscurity.”

“As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.”

“But these social workers, in some cases inadvertently, were creating something radical: state-supported queer families in an era of intense discrimination.”

“I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death.”