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Coal Comforts A recent communiqué from one of our contributing editors contained an informal essay reporting on the events of his past year.

On Wednesday, September 21st, The Straddler met with Kazys Varnelis in Manhattan’s Times Square.

I The events leading up to and following the financial crisis in 2008 led to widespread deployment of the term “Minsky Moment,” used to describe the painful termination of what Hyman Minsky called “runaway expansion.

On October 17, 2011, The Straddler met with Raquel Fernández at her office at NYU, where she is Professor of Economics.

n September 24, 2011, The Straddler met with Kim Ghattas in Manhattan, where she was reporting on the UN General Assembly.

CHRISTOPHER MULROONEY scraps of Alcman (tr. after Lattimore) 1. Aphrodite never but Eros at his filthy games like children stamping flowers and the pristine grass

Italo Calvino left us Six Memos for the Millennium: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, and Consistency; these qualities of imagination will promote the health of the human spirit.

1. The photograph reproduced on the front of the current issue, and below, was taken in Manhattan’s Central Park during the early years of the Great Depression.

November, 1241—March, 1242, Tokaj, Kingdom of Hungary They want to breed me like the mare, even after my first man gave me back.

The strangers: crime and labor in contemporary America On a Thursday morning, I take a walk down Broadway, my two-year-old son perched on my shoulders.