- Courtesy Wikimedia Commons
- Wire performing in 2008
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
• About how poverty harms the young brain? —Steve Bogira
• This list of inquiries to the reference librarians at the New York Public Library? (“Why do 18th century English paintings have so many squirrels in them, and how did they tame them so that they wouldn’t bite the painter?”) —Aimee Levitt
