Jia Tolentino

Simon Rich reads. “You'll never get away with this!” Ultra Man vowed as he wriggled in his chains. “You may destroy me, but you'll never destroy what I stand for!”

On Sunday afternoons I'd walk the steel overpass above fast cars, down to the gravelly footpath along the stony Delaware.

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“My greatest ambition is to keep serving this great country of ours in elected office. My second-greatest ambition is to duel the Aflac duck.”

As loud as leaf blowers, as miraculous as math, the insects are set to overtake the landscape.