FROM THE MAGAZINE

February 2021

Are you tired of experts?

The true scientist ‘believes the science’ only provisionally

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Low Life

What French women want

For sheer gale-force-10 sexual power, I must mention Christine, a hardworking local waitress in her early thirties

By Jeremy Clarke

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Place

Lake life

The best way to see Lake Geneva is from the water

By William Cook

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Home

My failed attempt to unite the Upstate New York literary scene

If the stars of the generation then passing burned less brightly in the firmament, well, then it was up to me to illuminate them

By Bill Kauffman

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Home

Come back, doggers, all is forgiven

They cause much less mayhem than the cyclists who have driven them away

By Melissa Kite

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The unfortunate misuse of ‘fortuitous’

An airplane crashing into your house would be fortuitous, but not, from most points of view, fortunate

By Dot Wordsworth

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The rise and fall of mink

Farmed minks live in battery cages, tightly confined

By Simon Barnes

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