Worm Your Way Through
Timeless stories from our 173-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Brain Worms
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An experiment in Worm Therapy.
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Life hack: hacking into the brain? Can deep brain stimulation treat addiction?
Read “A Hole in the Head” by Zachary Siegel
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A comprehensive look under the hood.
Read “The World of the Brain,” edited by Michael Aron
An Assassination Attempt in Slovakia
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Don DeLillo considers Lee Harvey Oswald.
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A mystery writer’s solution to a Civil War mystery.
Read “It Was Booth’s Body” by Dale Clark
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How the mythology of JFK’s assassination sustains the mythology of his career.
Read “The Life of Kennedy’s Death” by Christopher Lasch
In Memoriam: Alice Munro
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“Life is harder for some, we’re told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imaginary. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non-recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are
willing.”
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“How terrible it is, Sophia thinks. How terrible is the lot of women. And what might this woman say if Sophia told her about the new struggles, women’s battle for votes and places at the universities? She might say, But that is not as God wills. And if Sophia urged her to get rid of this God and sharpen her mind, would she not look at her— Sophia—with a certain stubborn pity, and exhaustion, and say, How then, without God, are we to get through this life?”
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“Jackson was one of those who didn’t bother to walk away. He wouldn’t have said he was curious about any of this, more that he was just waiting for the inevitable turn he had been expecting, to take him back to where he’d come from.”
Westminster Dog Show: Poodles on Podiums
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Paris’s pampered pups.
Read “A Dog’s Life in Paris” by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley