By Ryunosuke Akutagawa, from “A Certain Socialist,” a short story written in 1926. Akutagawa (1892–1927) was the author of more than three hundred works of fiction and non-fiction, including the…

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From the titles of North Korean artworks held in the private collection of Pier Luigi Cecioni, in Pontassieve, Italy. Cecioni is one of the principal dealers of North Korean art…

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Con artists are preying on undocumented immigrants in detention

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Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal

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Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?

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From the journal I did not keep

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The few white boys in our town could ball. Breakaway layups, nothing-but-the-bottom-of-the-net free throws, buzzer-beater fadeaways. They slept with basketballs in their beds and told us about their dreams. We…

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Discussed in this essay:  Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi. Verso. 256 pages. $24.95.  He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith…

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Deborah Eisenberg’s radically alien fiction

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The elusive meaning of privacy in America

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Percentage of native-born French who think they receive half as much government aid as immigrants : 24 Average percentage by which a native-born Frenchperson receives more aid than an immigrant…

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Researchers warned that closing the gender gap in computer science at current rates will take 280 years, that patients may be conscious while receiving CPR, that people who think they…

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Death and Taxes Kevin Baker’s essay about New York is a comprehensive catalogue of the symptoms of overdevelopment affecting the city today [“The Death of a Once Great City,” Report,…

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A copper rush sparks last-ditch battles for Arizona’s soul

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Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance

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What Is It Good For? The earnest ruminations of military experts, convened at West Point by Harper’s Magazine, about our “endless war” never once addressed how to actually bring about…

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Coming of age in the Seventies as a Midwesterner, a Mormon, and a resident of a town of about five hundred people, I didn’t get to meet a lot of…

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Percentage increase since 2012 in the number of Americans who play lacrosse : 35 Rank of lacrosse among sports with the highest rates of concussions in adolescents : 2 Centimeters…

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By Martha Nussbaum, from The Monarchy of Fear, which was published last month by Simon and Schuster. Nussbaum is a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago…

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From a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the Daily Chronicle. The letter is included in The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, published in…

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From Not to Read, which was published in the UK in April by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Zambra is the author of five novels, as well as short stories and poems. Translated…

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From Now, Now, Louison, a novel that will be published by Les Fugitives in the UK in September and by New Directions next March. Frémon is the president of Galerie…

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