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Kaddish in the Time of Covid
by Kate Neuman 05/16/2021Neighborhood: Berkshires, Midtown
What is it about anniversaries? Is it that the earth is again in the same place relative to the sun, and that we are occupying the same spot in the cosmos? You were here, but differently. Something has changed from when you were at this position before: you got married; planes hit the twin towers; […]
Nostalgia for the Norm
by Peter Wortsman 05/10/2020Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Observations in the Vale and Vector of the Virus It’s late. And again, I survey the silence, inverting wakefulness and sleep. Again, in place of dreaming, I listen to the refrigerator humming. The construction site that had been growing like a giant metal bean stalk outside my window, down the block, has suspended activity, its […]