Nonstop

Raucous Cosmopolitan

Americans, we have much to be grateful for. We have freedom, and freedom is everything.

Pete Campbell, San Jose

Loved ones we call the dead depart from us and for a while are absent. And then as if called back by our love, they come near us again. They enter our dreams. We feel they have been near us when we have not thought of them. They are simply here, simply waiting while we are distracted among our obligations. At last it comes to us: They live now in the permanent world. We are the absent ones.

Wendell Berry, The New Yorker, NOV 24, 2025