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Pop Smoke’s “Welcome to the Party” Was an Anthem, Then an Elegy

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By Taran Dugal
| The New Yorker Verified
Mano’s place was a third-story walkup on a quiet stretch of Montrose Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Marcy projects. It was stuffy, barely furnished, and perpetually muggy on account of its lack of air-conditioning, a discomfort outdone only by the actual size of the place—you had to sit sideways on the toilet just to close the bathroom door. This was 2018, a summer marred by bleak headlines and record-breaking heat, but I was happy.
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Late Summertime Idylls by the Water

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By Taran Dugal
| The New Yorker Verified
For the past two hundred years, summer in New York has best been spent by the water. “Circumambulate the city,” Melville writes in “Moby-Dick,” and you’ll find “thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.” It’s true: all stripes of New Yorkers (not just men, Herman!) amble along the city’s promenades, eyes fixed on the water’s rippling surface. Frequently—and here’s another thing Melville didn’t mention—a good number of these coastal strollers have a refreshing drink in hand.
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How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition

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By Taran Dugal
| The New Yorker Verified
That picture, “Burial of an Unknown Child,” became the defining image of the disaster, a depiction of tragedy so viscerally infused with loss that, even today, it appears on banners protesting the chemical company responsible, which has yet to make full amends for the incident.
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