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Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

My son hadn't even been born when I started secretly writing him a birthday letter each year. As he neared adulthood, I wondered how he would receive them.

The author reads her story from the November 10, 2025, issue of the magazine.

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Backbone," which was published in The New Yorker in 2011.

A collaborative work by a photographer, a poet, and an artist, "The Harlem Book of the Dead," newly reissued, tells stories through funerary portraits.

Finding my own words.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

The city has often been spoken about as a war zone in need of saving from itself. But at home, as abroad, America's enemies are so often of American invention.

The Trump Administration, looking for another TV-ready fight in Oregon, is ready to sic the National Guard on the city's inflatable-costumed protesters.

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