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Archive: 2018

A Chicken in Every Pot

From Workers’ Tales, a collection of British socialist fairy tales from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, edited by Michael Rosen and published last month by Princeton University Press.…

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Train Dreams

From Love in the New Millennium, a novel that was published this month by Yale University Press. Can Xue is the pseudonym of Deng Xiaohua, who previously worked as a…

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21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. A race-baiting, xenophobic bigotThe Islamic State’s “man of the year”The death…

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Arch

Arch, a painting by Barbara Takenaga, whose work was on view in October at DC Moore Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York…

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A Strange Hour

A Strange Hour, a painting by Amy Bennett, whose work was on view in April at Richard Heller Gallery, in Santa Monica, California. Courtesy the artist and Richard Heller Gallery,…

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“Transformed Agricultural Machine, Kayak Road Sign Facing Highway 90, Hula Valley”

“Transformed Agricultural Machine, Kayak Road Sign Facing Highway 90, Hula Valley,” a photograph by Roei Greenberg, whose work was on view in August at Aperture Gallery, in New York City.…

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A Dream

By Christopher Nealon, from “The Shore,” a manuscript in progress. For Saba Mahmood. Then I gave it upI gave up thinking that the song I heard was the song of…

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Foresight

By Rae Armantrout, from End Quote, a poetry collection that will be published by Wesleyan University Press in 2020.     1The way we gatherat the window, pointing with funereal…

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“Ça Va Aller #3”

“Ça Va Aller #3,” an embroidered photograph by Joana Choumali, whose work was on view in May at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, in Brooklyn, New York. Courtesy the artist…

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“Dictyota dichotoma, in the young state; and in fruit”

“Dictyota dichotoma, in the young state; and in fruit,” a cyanotype by Anna Atkins, c. 1850, from her book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, Part XI. Atkins’s work is…

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Letters

Get Up, Stand Up It was heartening to read Garret Keizer condemn the fact that labor leaders “turned their backs” on Bernie Sanders’s candidacy in 2016 and willfully scorned their…

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Harper’s Index

Percentage increase from 2016 to 2017 in incidents of piracy in the Caribbean : 163 Chance that a migrant crossing the Mediterranean this year would be killed in transit :…

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Findings

A survey of prisoners found that criminals who as children beat, burned, choked, drowned, kicked, shot, starved, stoned, or had sex with animals were not at greater risk of committing…

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Rebirth of a Nation

Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war?

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Jet-Age Federalism

Most of the time, Americans seem to thrive on change. The meadow converted to a real-estate development is regarded less as a sacrifice to progress than a symbol of it.…

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The Tragedy of Ted Cruz

Does likability still matter in politics?

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Discovery, Interrupted

How World War I delayed a treatment for diabetes and derailed one man’s chance at immortality

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Battlefield and Wind Chime

Tongo Eisen-Martin’s poems are echo chambers of vernaculars and unofficial languages. He both registers the damage caused by systemic racism and evinces—and by his work extends—the rich modes of resistance…

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Blood Money

Taxpayers pick up the tab for police brutality

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Two Years in Auschwitz

A personal history of the Holocaust

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Wrong Object

H e is a nondescript man. I’d never used that adjective about a client. Not until this one. My seventeenth. He’d requested an evening time and came Tuesdays at six-thirty.…

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New Books

Discussed in this essay: Vile Days, by Gary Indiana, edited by Bruce Hainley. Semiotext(e). 600 pages. $29.95. Seasonal Associate, by Heike Geissler, translated by Katy Derbyshire. Semiotext(e). 240 pages. $16.95. The Children’s Bach,…

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God, the Editor

Can the Qur’an be read as literature?

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Ove and Out

Knausgaard’s struggle comes to an end

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Checkpoint Nation

Border agents are expanding their reach into the country’s interior

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On Becoming a Scumbag

A poignant, profane novel of addiction

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