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Readers Respond to the December 2025 Issue

A big thank you to Douglas Starr for his cover story (“Gimme Shelter,” December 2025) on Best Friends Animal Society. Starr ...
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Vermont Conversation: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel on cultivating a ‘little oasis of queer freedom’

Bechdel is now a professor in the practice at Yale University. She divides her time between teaching for a semester at Yale and living and drawing at her home in West Bolton, Vermont. Bechdel’s wife ...