From an article titled “Phenotypic Mimicry Distinguishes Cues of Mating Competition from Paternal Investment in Men’s Conspicuous Consumption,” which was published in April in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The…

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From a list of nicknames for defendants indicted in November 2020. The charges include racketeering conspiracy, illegal gambling, loan sharking, extortion, and drug trafficking. The Department of Justice alleges that…

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From a text-message exchange between a person in Charleston and the operator of the South Carolina Aquarium’s educational hotline. inquirer: I’m currently at the corner of Market and Meeting. What…

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From a manuscript in progress. Oh no, when I said that playing doctor is a violence, I did not intend for your piercing vision to sense that I am an…

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From the results of a YouGov survey measuring the percentage of Americans who believe they could defeat different types of animals in an unarmed fight. Rat House cat Goose Medium-size…

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See the solution to last month’s puzzle here

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The Tangled Web As a journalist who has spent seven years reporting on war and conflict in the field, I have often butted heads with Washington-based analysts and editors who…

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Giant Meddlers, a painting by Jessie Makinson, whose work will be on view in September at the Armory Show,in New York City © The artist. Courtesy Lyles & King, New…

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We live, we are told, in distracted times. The internet has destroyed our ability to concentrate, condemning us to a future of agitated doomscrolling. Our alienated children stare at their…

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From “Romance Without Love, Love Without Romance,” which was published in the Spring 2021 issue of Liberties. I have only ever had one friend as crazy as I am. Once,…

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From an April CBC Radio interview of Timothy Jones, conducted by Chris Howden and Carol Off. Jones is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. chris howden:…

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From Green Green Green, a book of essays, which was published last month by Nightboat Books. There is a deathliness built into the linguistic history of green. As in, you…

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From posts on DQN Today, a Japanese website that allows users to drop pins on neighborhood maps and note noise or other disturbances. Translated from the Japanese. Several families are…

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From The Republic of False Truths, which will be published next month by Knopf. Translated from the Arabic. “If a worker wants to demonstrate in Tahrir Square, I don’t give…

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From Fugitive Atlas, a poetry collection, which was published in October 2020 by Graywolf Press. Speak the body’s thrift, the blood and breath sustained by a candle flame, remembrances encircle…

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From The Complete Memoirs, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In recent days, attacks on my ideas and my poetry have multiplied. Within and outside of…

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From an interview conducted by a journalist with his former marijuana dealer, published in April by the Riverfront Times. Chimchards, who now buys weed legally from a medical dispensary, refers…

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From a study titled “Modelling the maximal active consumption rate and its plasticity in humans—perspectives from hot dog eating competitions,” which was published last summer in Royal Society Biology Letters.…

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From text messages about women that were exchanged in a group chat of police officers in Eureka, California, between March and August 2020. That bitch at Motel 6 is fucking…

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1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

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The notion of the “nostalgic American” served liberals as an ideal whipping boy at a time when the intellectual foundations of liberalism were beginning to erode. As the dogma of…

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How Amazon turned a generation against labor

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The October leaves coming down, as if called. Morning fog through the wild rye beyond the train tracks. A cigarette. A good sweater. On the sagging porch. While the family…

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Notes on a year without strangers

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Art as civic repair

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After the event, it was observed that there can be no neutral bystanders. If employment of the passive voice has also been observed in the preceding sentence—as in, if some…

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“Woman and Lilies,” by Jo Ann Callis © The artist. Courtesy ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, California In literature and film, something happens when women hit forty, or nowadays perhaps forty-five: the…

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