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TOMORROW IS MY DAUGHTER'S FOURTH BIRTHDAY, AND AS I WRITE THIS, THE temperature is projected to be 107 degrees here in Portland, Oregon. Our kids wanted to cool offin the [...]

It happened just like people said: Time really did slow down. The ambulance came screaming toward the Line 19 bus, crossing the Burnside Bridge in the wrong lane. Scan right, [...]

Byline: The New Yorker Dispatches from a Pandemic The birds must think we've gone extinct. One day we were there-spilling out of subway stations, lining up at theatres, packing into [...]

Byline: Karen Russell A Temporary Moment in Time tifPhotograph by Andi G�ldi Vink� NEW YORK CITY, BY JORGE COLOMBO35 Shakespeare did his finest work under quarantine, I keep hearing. I [...]

''Hey,'' a new acquaintance said to me shortly after I moved to Portland, Ore. ''I think I saw you running by the river yesterday.'' He was frowning a little, as [...]

KAREN RUSSELL “Your Kid’s Room camera saw someone.” One afternoon, working at home, I received an e-mail with this subject line. I opened the message to discover a grainy video [...]

Byline: Karen Russell Object Permanence 'Your Kid's Room camera saw someone.' One afternoon, working at home, I received an e-mail with this subject line. I opened the message to discover [...]

With a kid's hubris, I was certain I could take care of two hermit crabs into their spiny dotage. It was fascinating to watch a naked crab emerge from the [...]

My last invention was for the seventh-grade science fair. I poured sunscreen onto a deodorant stick and called it Roller Solar Cream. On the bus to school, my best friend, [...]

Byline: BY KAREN RUSSELL Michal Chelbin The BLIND FAITH of the ONE-EYED MATADOR Last fall, one of Spain's greatest matadors took a horn to the face. It was a brutal [...]

As tourists in Vietnam, my friend Vince and I ate coconut candy and rode bicycles around the Mekong Delta. We lunched on a fish that looked like Harry Dean Stanton [...]

''Don't fall, Papa!'' we called behind us. My brother and my sister and I were smuggling our 85-year-old grandfather across the deck of a cruise ship, at his request, toward [...]

Sheila Heti UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CLASS OF 2001 Author of a book of short fiction, 'The Middle Stories,' and a novel, 'Ticknor.' I spent the first six months of university [...]

LEAD: To our children . . . in the hope that they will grow up as we could not . . . equal . . . and understanding. To our [...]