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Anyone who has ever been in love and fucked up, or been in love and got fucked over, will find something gaspingly true in Taylor Swift's lyrics, Amanda Petrusich writes.http://nyer.cm/hWPzpHH 

The sportswriter @SamSmithHoops discusses his relationship with Michael Jordan over the past three decades, his problems with “The Last Dance,” and why there can never be another Jordan.http://nyer.cm/XKqfWDZ 

The ragged end of Donald Trump's Presidency, if it comes, will be full of conflict and resentment, @mashagessen writes. There will be no orderly handover, no constructive transition—a disastrous prospect during a pandemic and a deep recession.http://nyer.cm/llXyEsR 

The racialized law-and-order ideology that emerged in America at the end of the 1960s has basically prevailed since, and it has provided the political context in which police unions thrive.http://nyer.cm/59qn9Pd 

Baseball’s opening weekend seemed almost ordinary, which was extraordinary.http://nyer.cm/M4Oizvc 

It’s hard to be the most hated person in the world.http://nyer.cm/RvdWm0n 

“What I love that fiction can do is the way it can get inside a consciousness and the way it can push mystery.” Tommy Orange reads and discusses a story by Louise Erdrich.http://nyer.cm/bXlBfkB 

Right now, Joe Biden’s strategy of keeping the focus on President Trump and pitching a broad tent is working well, @JohnCassidy writes.http://nyer.cm/3Wy7ObE 

The creator of “Bluey” said that his show intends to capture “the real, idiosyncratic way that kids play”—as opposed to the way that we adults imagine them playing.http://nyer.cm/FMtxJRC 

“She says, I realize that this must be strange for you, too”: read an excerpt from @brywashing’s forthcoming novel.http://nyer.cm/k08MifX 

A new book about Phillis Wheatley, America’s first Black poet, operates both as a restoration of Phillis’s humanity and a rebuttal of her first biographer’s work.http://nyer.cm/PKRucSd 

In 1970, a federal judge declared Arkansas’s prison system unconstitutional. Fifty years later, as the coronavirus spreads throughout the state’s prisons, inmates say that they are still being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.http://nyer.cm/6XUeCMn 

Herman Melville, born on this day in 1819, never really stopped writing—but, writes John Updike, by abstaining from a forced productivity, the novelist preserved his communion with greatness.http://nyer.cm/sI79civ 

To call Joseph McCarthy a conspiracy theorist is giving him too much credit. He was more like a conspiracy-monger.http://nyer.cm/IGfjnN9 

In 2009, Atul Gawande visited McAllen, Texas, which was the most expensive place for health care in America, to find out why medical costs were so high.http://nyer.cm/YywEX5J 

Jamaica, a nation whose economy is dependent on international movement and tourism, had no choice but to reopen. But opening its borders to Americans puts the country’s population at risk.http://nyer.cm/yutAkVO 

“On reaching home, I immediately drove through the center of town and rejoiced at two remarkable sights: most stores were open, and everyone wore a mask.”http://nyer.cm/0IE1JAa 

What gives Helen Garner’s writing its power is that she is unsparing, in equal measure, of her subject and of herself.http://nyer.cm/Z9cr9mP 

"This is what he remembered. Heat. A baseball field. Yellow grass, the whirr of insects, himself leaning against a tree as the boys of the neighborhood gather for a pickup game." Fiction by Tobias Wolff, from 1995.http://nyer.cm/3QAbWOs