From The White Book, published this month by Hogarth. Kang is a professor of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.…

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Bird of Paradise, mixed media on canvas by Mark Bradford, whose work was on view last spring at Hauser & Wirth, in Los Angeles. © The artist. Courtesy the artist…

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An untitled collage from the series The Eye Is Not Satisfied with Seeing, by Hai Zhang, whose work was on view in December at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, in New York…

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From headlines that have appeared in the New York Times since 2016. Compiled by Henry Freedland. Yes, the Truth Still MattersYes, the News Can Survive the NewspaperYes, There Have Been…

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From explanations given by the Chinese government for why certain artists and celebrities are banned from entering or performing in the country. Behaving badly in social lifeAssociating with countercultureUsing profanity…

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“Entanglement,” a photograph by Linda DeStefano Brown, whose work was on view in August in the exhibition Recreating Nature, at Fountain Street Gallery, in Boston. Courtesy the artist and Fountain…

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From No Matter, which will be published in July by Tim Duggan Books. Because of what I seemed reduced toand I’d expected moreI wore this blankeffectto the receptionnot discouraged, willingand…

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Interfering Patterns and Interfering Patterns and Ghosts, paintings by Eske Kath, whose work was on view in December at Galerie Mikael Andersen, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Courtesy the artist and Galerie…

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From a manuscript in progress. Carson’s collection of performance pieces Float was published by Knopf in 2016. The aunts sit along the wall in their narrow stone chairs that smell…

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Deep Deep Down, a painting by Amy Casey, whose work was on view in January at Foley Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Foley Gallery, New York…

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Missing, in an age of mass displacement

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How the United States and China can avoid war

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Are homicides among the elderly acts of mercy or malice?

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America’s muddled involvement with Syria

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Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America

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For the past six years the largest country in the world—with a quarter of the earth’s population—has been a blank space on the map of American foreign policy. For many…

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Bianca White, dressed in cream, was the first to arrive. All morning, she’d been looking forward to her lunch date with Ainsley Burton. In addition to being Bianca’s estranged best…

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by Daniel Immerwahr. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 528 pages. $30. Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli. Knopf. 400 pages. $27.95. Territory…

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On Giorgio Bassani’s Novel of Ferrara

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Percentage of pending cases at the European Court of Human Rights that were filed against the Russian government : 19 That were filed against the UK government : 0.5 Portion…

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Migrant women who have recently settled in Australia and Canada understand menopause both as an “Age of Despair” and “When Life Starts.” Extreme weight-loss behaviors are equally prevalent among US…

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State of Mind As a solution to conservatives’ stranglehold on federal politics, Jonathan Taplin posits a progressive federalism, under which environmental, economic, civil rights, and other reforms are undertaken by…

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Lost in this past electoral season, one of the most vicious and frightening in American history, is how shaky the very foundation of our democracy is. Throughout Trump’s deformation of…

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Factor by which the number of Americans who identify as “former Catholics” has increased since 1975 : 4 Percentage of US Christians who say they have had fewer than ten…

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From The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, published this month by Riverhead Books. Treuer is Ojibwe and from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. In 1863, Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk)…

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From reported behaviors of Republican legislators who were elected or reelected in November. Posted erotic drawings of bigfootVoted to make it legal to kill hibernating wolves and bearsBragged about shooting…

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Group X, No. 2, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 2, Altarbild) and Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 1, Altarbild), 1915, oil and metalleaf paintings on canvas by Hilma…

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