From criteria used to catalogue photographs taken by “Caesar,” an anonymous photographer for the Syrian military. Between 2011 and 2013, Caesar photographed 28,707 men tortured and killed by the regime…

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By Keston Sutherland, from Whither Russia, which was published last year by Barque Press.  I look down on you, stars of my depression, Since your shining is so domineering, Lighting…

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America’s addiction to war

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Before dawn I woke, shivering with cold. I had never been so cold in my life. While it was still dark, the bugle sounded reveille. We dressed as close to…

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A Syrian refugee family’s search for home

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Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads?

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How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai

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Artificial intelligence and the expanding reach of the police

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Notes from a purveyor

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Today I did something and I have no idea why I did it. I followed someone, two people actually, but it was the woman I was really following, the man…

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The strangest part of acquiring my green card was the medical exam, which culminated in an inspection of my breasts and “external genitalia.” Underwear lowered to my knees, I stood…

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The uses and abuses of psychedelics

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Rachel Cusk’s unforgiving eye

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Fearfully neurotic regions of the United States and the United Kingdom were likelier to vote for Donald Trump and Brexit. Americans have been displaying high levels of OCD-like thought about…

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“Only connect” are the words that E. M. Forster is most famous for. What they actually meant to him, however, often fades behind a vague notion that his was a boosterish, pro-connection…

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Things We Can Do Without Katie Roiphe ignores the fact that gender inequality is a psychological condition, not just a material one [“The Other Whisper Network,” Essay, March]. She dismisses…

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Number of US states in which fluorescent pink is a legal color for hunting apparel : 6 Percentage of US gun owners who report storing all their guns safely :…

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On October 12, 2016, a front-page story in the Sun, a conservative UK newspaper, reported that nine hundred women who were not British citizens had given birth at a single National Health…

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From notes on the reported actions of an adult male student at Vancouver Island University who is diagnosed with paraphilic infantilism. The notes were compiled by Katrin Roth von Szepesbéla,…

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By Éric Chevillard, from QWERTY Invectives. The book appeared last month as part of the Cahiers Series, which is published by Sylph Editions and the Center for Writers and Translators…

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By Rachel Cusk, from Kudos, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Cusk is the author of nine previous novels. We entered the restaurant and sat…

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From a table detailing the reported shapes of UFOs in sightings in the United States since 2001. The table is included in the UFO Sightings Desk Reference, which was self-published…

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