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CVS Caremark Strips Wegovy's Formulary Edge, Putting Novo Nordisk (CPSE: NOVO B) Valuation Story To The Test
18+ min ago (19+ words) The Foreign Policy Journal is a leading news publication covering US and international politics, business, and global affairs news....
A Talent for Seeming," by Jonathan Franzen
51+ min ago (1990+ words) Amputation might have been the safest expedient, but the mine would have had to pay permanent disability. Three days later, the Montana Standard reported that Lee Elmer Kinsky was survived by his wife, Louanne, and a daughter, Adele. Read an…...
The Antagonist
51+ min ago (688+ words) Han Ong, the author of the novel "Fixer Chao," cut ties with his family when he was twenty. Almost thirty years later, he Googled his mother. It took me a few tries to find my mother on Google in 2017. My…...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
51+ min ago (106+ words) Look What You Made Me Do," by John Lanchester; Magadh," by Shrikant Verma; Adrift in the South," by Xiao Hai; and The Story of Birds," by Steve Brusatte. Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A scientist with a Ph....
How to Grow Old," by Sandra Cisneros
51+ min ago (113+ words) Inner-arm flesh, crepe bat wings. Train for night flights. In the bath, discover a warm atollof flesh on the belly. Cup gently in your handslike raw tortilla dough. Admire its satin finish. Give thanks. One day you will wakeastonished as…...
Leo Woodall Gets a Tune Up
51+ min ago (718+ words) The life of a piano tuner is not glamorous. Unpredictable hours, loud noises, finicky clients, wrenches, needles. Tuners can work on as many as five pianos a day. But, in a world of "I know a guy," it's hard to…...
Annie Ernaux on Childish Cruelty
51+ min ago (457+ words) In "Stories," the narrator, a ten-year-old girl, is tasked with taking a five-year-old girl to school. Was that common practice in Normandy in your childhood? Did you do the same thing? It was very common for an older child to…...
Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya
51+ min ago (180+ words) On the Fiction Podcast, Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Fugitive," by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss "The Fugitive," by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was…...
The Tally
51+ min ago (263+ words) It was all a bit mad, we thought, but my mother was adamant. "I couldn't have eaten it," she said. "I just couldn't sit down on Christmas Day, of all days, and eat a turkey I had not paid for....
What Did "Lady Chatterley" Liberate?
51+ min ago (738+ words) D. H. Lawrence wrote "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in six weeks. He was living in Italy, where he had moved in 1925 for his health. He had tuberculosis, and he probably knew that "Lady Chatterley" was likely to be his last novel. (It was....