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Invisible and Insidious

Living at the edge of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster

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Harper’s Index

Percentage of Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2014 primary-campaign contributions that came from the United States : 90 That came from three U.S. families : 30 Year in which the first female U.S. senator took office : 1922 In…

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Harpers Index

Portion of the hundred best-paid U.S. CEOs who earn more annually than their companies pay in federal taxes : 1/3 Percentage of Americans and Chinese, respectively, who believe their government is “on…

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Untitled (Cowboy)

[caption id="attachment_252977" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Untitled (Cowboy) (detail), a painting by Richard Prince, whose work was on view in October at Gagosian Gallery in New York City © The artist. Courtesy…

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Letters

Discipline and Publish Kenneth E. Hartman’s memoir about serving life without the possibility of parole [“Christmas in Pris­on,” December] is the most cogent and accurate depiction of life in the…

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The Melancholy of Anatomy

By Wendell Berry, from Our Only World, out this month from Counterpoint. Berry’s essay “Faustian Economics” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Names

By Krystyna Dabrowska, from Czas i przeslona (Time and Aperture), published last year by Znak. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

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Shirking 9 to 5

From a list of reasons given for missing work, collected by CareerBuilder in a survey completed by 2,303 hiring managers and human-resources professionals.

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This Land is My Land

From accounts of threats made against employees of the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management since 2010, featured last October in High Country News. (See “The Great…

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In the Beginning

By Eliot Weinberger, from Little Star #6. Weinberger’s books include An Elemental Thing and Oranges & Peanuts for Sale.                                                           the creation On June 9, 1603, Samuel de Champlain attended an Algonquin…

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The War of the World

On a single day in July of 1943, more than 500 Allied planes bombed Rome, killing 1,500 people. The city got off lightly compared with Naples, which was attacked 200…

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Site-Specific

From domain names of online dating networks. Amish-Online-Dating DarwinDating

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Tools Rush In

From comments appended to a post made last November on OathKeepers.org, a “non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders.” The post sought volunteers to guard…

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The Moronic Inferno

From a new translation of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador, a novel by Horacio Castellanos Moya. Moya, a Salvadoran writer, is the author of many books, including Senselessness and…

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Unequally Yolked

From a complaint filed last October by Unilever, the manufacturer of the Best Foods and Hellmann’s brands of mayonnaise, against Hampton Creek, which produces a vegan condiment called Just Mayo.

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The Sharp Edge of Life

By Saul Bellow, from a previously unpublished essay written in 1951 and included in There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction, edited by Benjamin Taylor and out…

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The Great Republican Land Heist

Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West

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Cowburnt

Most of the public lands in the West, and especially in the Southwest, are what you might call “cowburnt.” Almost anywhere and everywhere you go in the American West you…

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Captive Market

Why we won’t get prison reform

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The Day of the Sea

Bolivia’s dogged quest to reclaim its lost coastline

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Honky, Napoleon, and the Empress Wu

Memories of a South African childhood

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Some Notes on Song

The rhythms of listening

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Family Life

Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell It’s not hot out, it’s not cold. A shy, sharp sun overcomes the clouds, and the sky looks, at times, truly clean, like…

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