Biologists who captured ninety-nine sea snakes off Costa Rica and offered them a drink found that 80 percent of the snakes accepted water late in the dry season but only 13 percent…

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Crimes and Misdemeanors I agree with Lionel Shriver’s assertion that the complete cultural banishment to which perceived sexual offenders are sometimes subjected is harsh, and mindlessly so [“Cruel and Unusual…

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For American liberals, the European Union is a bastion of social justice, secular humanism, and civic virtue. Taxed gratefully into equality, its subjects spend their days recycling kefir containers and…

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Percentage change since 1975 in the portion of Americans who hold hunting licenses : –38 Number of states that allow roadkill to be salvaged for food : 31 Number of…

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From Humanitarian Wars?, which will be published in April in the United Kingdom by Hurst. Brauman, a physician, was president of Doctors Without Borders from 1982 to 1994. This conversation,…

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The Time Vivarium-97, a work on paper by Sun Xun, whose work is on view this month at ShanghART Gallery, in Singapore. © The artist. Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York…

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From descriptions, published in a music review by Texas senator John Cornyn, of Neil Young’s 1972 album Harvest. The article was printed in February of that year in the Trinitonian,…

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Photographs of toys made by children in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda, by Nora Lorek. © Nora Lorek/Panos Pictures

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“DNA #7797L-#7801R, 2018,” a photograph by Michael Koerner, whose work was on view in March at the CEG Salon, in Chicago. Courtesy the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago…

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From the opening lines of chapters in A Short History of Europe, by Simon Jenkins, published in March by Public Affairs Books. It helps to be a god. As Zeus…

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From a manuscript in progress. Sharif’s previous collection of poetry, Look, was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press. I hadto. Ilearned it.It wasif. Ifwas nice.I saidsure. Onemore thing.One morething. Eatit…

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From accounts of nonsexual orgasms documented in “Orgasm Range and Variability in Humans: A Content Analysis.” The study was published in the International Journal of Sexual Health in November of…

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From The Besieged City, a novel that will be published this month by New Directions. Lispector’s novel The Chandelier was published last year by New Directions. Edited by Benjamin Moser…

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From reviews, published on TripAdvisor, of the Henn-na Hotel, a robot-run resort in Japan that laid off more than half its automated workforce in January. Henn-na bills itself as a…

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Spectrum of Life I, a painting by Tizta Berhanu, whose work was on view in March at Addis Fine Art, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Courtesy the artist and Addis Fine…

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“View Park, Number I,” a photograph by Janna Ireland, whose work is on view this month at Antenna, in New Orleans. Courtesy the artist…

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The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

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There used to be the notion that Keats was killed by a bad review, that in despair and hopelessness he turned his back to the wall and gave up the…

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A writer alone with the work

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The troubled legacy of Guatemalan adoptions

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The power of pastoral care

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Why Julian Assange deserves First Amendment protection

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On the dread of looking down

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All his life he lived on hatred. He was a solitary man who hoarded gloom. At night a thick smell filled his bachelor’s room on the edge of the kibbutz.…

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In “Shrink,” a short piece from her 1993 book Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream, the Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešic recounts, or imagines, trying…

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On Thomas Merton, fifty years after his death

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Christos Ikonomou’s modern tragedies

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