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Baked Alaska

From interviews with Yup’ik hunters and elders in the Alaskan villages of St. Mary’s and Pitka’s Point by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, conducted as part of a study…

The Art of Waiting

by Belle Boggs,

From the March/April 2012 issue of Orion. Boggs is the author of the short-story collection Mattaponi Queen. It’s spring when I realize that I may never have children, and around…

Entomologists re-created the chirping of the Jurassic bush cricket, and Russian soil cryologists cultivated a 31,800-year-old plant from a fossilized squirrel burrow in Siberia. It was determined that ancient Egyptians…

One across

by Harper’s Staff,

Aretha

by Anthony Heilbut,

How she got over

The long goodbye

by Will Frears,

James Ellroy tries to let go

The purloined Borges

by Edgardo Krebs,

Translation and traduction

New books

by Larry McMurtry,

Train

by Alice Munro,

This is a slow train anyway, and it has slowed some more for the curve. Jackson is the only passenger left, and the next stop is about twenty miles ahead.…

Slipping through the net

by Matthew Power,

Cambodia’s border war against drug-resistant malaria

The Warrior Class

by Charles Glass,

A golden age for the freelance soldier

It’s a Rich Man’s World

by Thomas Frank,

How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates

Owls

Art by Olive Ayhens,

The baby

by James Tate,

I Can’t Read

by Roberto Bolaño,Translated by Chris Andrews,

From The Secret of Evil, a collection of writing found on Bolaño’s computer after his death in 2003, out in April from New Directions. Translated from the Spanish by Chris…

Mopey Dick

by Harper’s Staff,

Electric ladyland

by Craig Taylor,

Our hole

by Walter Martin, Paloma Muñoz,

Terms of release

by Harper’s Staff,

Archive: 2012

To the mountains

Baked Alaska

Unwilling spectator 2

The first wife

I, etcetera

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Stampede

Tunnel

The Art of Waiting

Harper’s index

Bully pulpit

Letters

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Findings

One across

Aretha

The long goodbye

The purloined Borges

New books

Train

Slipping through the net

The Warrior Class

It’s a Rich Man’s World

Owls

The baby

I Can’t Read

Mopey Dick

Electric ladyland

Our hole

Terms of release

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Archive: 2012

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To the mountains

Baked Alaska

Unwilling spectator 2

The first wife

I, etcetera

[untitled]

Stampede

Tunnel

The Art of Waiting

Harper’s index

Bully pulpit

Letters

Untitled

Findings

One across

Aretha

The long goodbye

The purloined Borges

New books

Train

Slipping through the net

The Warrior Class

It’s a Rich Man’s World

Owls

The baby

I Can’t Read

Mopey Dick

Electric ladyland

Our hole

Terms of release

May 2012

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