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Caleb Crain

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“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain

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By Caleb Crain
| The New Yorker Verified
How much time do you have? I asked in reply. Maybe we better come back to it, the person who had been sitting across from me—who was now standing across from me—said, laughing. But then we might never come back, I said, tapping my card against the device on the table. Often people who take a break from math never do. That had been my own case. I had gone into novel-writing instead.
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Looking Back at Lewis and Clark

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By Caleb Crain
| The New Yorker Verified
If Meriwether Lewis and William Clark hadn’t gone up the Missouri River in 1804 and then down the lower Columbia River in 1805, there might today be less United States and more Canada. Lately, I have been having trouble imagining how that could be seen as a bad thing. Lewis and Clark have long had their skeptics. “The crossing of the continent was a great feat, but was nothing more,” Henry Adams wrote, more than a century ago, in his history of Thomas Jefferson’s Presidency.
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Trying to Find the Right and True Way to Talk About Death Is Funny

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By Caleb Crain
| Harper's Magazine Verified
“Why do you think it’s funny?” I asked. “Well, funny the way music can be funny, I suppose,” he replied. “Music is funny?” “Not all music, Sam. But a scherzo is funny, I think it’s safe to say. They wouldn’t call it that otherwise.” He liked to smuggle in a premise. In this case, that language carves up the world at the joints, that language has some kind of authority. Because it’s venerable? Because many hands were in at the making of it?
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