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Millions of Muslims arrive in Mecca to start the Hajj pilgrimage, expected to be the largest in the event's history. / Al Jazeera
Regarding the weekend's events in Russia: "This was a preview of how the war in Ukraine ends." / Thinking about…
A list of people many Republicans in Washington want to impeach—Biden, Garland, et al. / Semafor
Starbucks workers from more than 150 stores go on strike over Pride decor. / Quartz
Related: A brief, illustrated history of Pride flags. / The Washington Post
The corrosion of gas stations' fuel tanks is a slow-motion environmental disaster. Cleanup costs may top $22 billion. / Grist
A custodial worker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute switches off a super-cold freezer in a lab and destroys decades of scientific research. / The Times Union
Zurich, Switzerland, increases its minimum wage to around $26 an hour. / SRF Swiss Radio
Finland promotes an island for phone-free vacations. / InsideHook
Travel is often sold as an achievement: interesting places, interesting experiences, interesting people. "Call this the traveller's delusion." / The New Yorker
A new book tells readers how to navigate deadly disasters of the past. / Smithsonian Magazine
The first journalist (supposedly) to write about "The Dark Side of the Rainbow" finds the mashup less magical now. / The New York Times Magazine
Steely Dan fans are freaking out over "the most important cassette on the planet." / The Guardian
Amy Odell: Pharrell for Louis Vuitton is the Marvel movie of fashion shows. / Back Row
And now a brief chat with a new Sustaining Member, Marc F.!
Hi, Marc. Thank you so much for the support. How did you find us? I was listening to a 26 April podcast of Past Present Future, presented by David Runciman, entitled "The Novel that Unravels Democracy," in which he and Ian McEwan discuss a story [it is not a novel] by Italo Calvino entitled "The Watcher," which they call "one of the greatest of all works of political fiction." So I, as a watcher of politics, bought the book that contained that story and two others. Two of the stories, "The Watcher" and "Smog" were translated by William Weaver. On page four of "The Watcher" is the sentence, "It was 1953 now, and in all the elections in subsequent years he [the protagonist] had seen that, rain or shine, etcetera." It struck me that "subsequent" was not right so I downloaded a .pdf of the original Calvino work in Italian and translated it (four years of Latin in high school helped) and saw that something like "previous" would have been more appropriate. At that point I looked at the Wikipedia entry for William Weaver. It and especially one note helped redeem, as it were, Weaver for me. The note led to "William Weaver at Annandale-on-Hudson" by Elizabeth Kiem in The Morning News. Do you recall the last paragraph of her piece? Such lovely writing; congratulations for printing her. How could I not support you? And anyone who could provide that translation in English of "Il Pasticciaccio" can be forgiven one "subsequent."
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