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Phony Capitalism

By Joseph Stiglitz, adapted from a white paper published in May by the Roosevelt Institute, where he is chief economist. Stiglitz received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.

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The Weight

By Ben Lerner, from 10:04, a novel published this month by Faber and Faber. Lerner is the author of a previous novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, and three books of…

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Tramp Stamp

From the more than one hundred terms incorporating “slut” that have been filed for trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Trench Town Rock

By Marlon James, from A Brief History of Seven Killings, a novel to be published next month by Riverhead. James is the author of a previous novel, The Book of…

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Kandahar’s Mystery Executions

Are the Afghan police using torture to achieve peace?

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Letters

Disputation Car Kevin Baker’s article on American rail travel [“21st Century Limited,” Folio, July] covered much of the same territory I did in my recent book, Train. But Baker came…

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Page Turner

The time is close at hand when the scattered members of the civilized communities will be as closely united, as far as instant telephonic communication is concerned, as the various…

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Return of the Strongman

How did Egypt revert to dictatorship?

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Francis and the Nuns

Is the new Vatican all talk?

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The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…

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Letters

The Curiosity Gene As Maud Newton vividly describes [“America’s Ancestry Craze,” Criticism, June], the search for one’s genealogical roots can become so consuming that it feels like a sickness. My…

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Harlem Is Nowhere

To live in Harlem is to dwell in the very bowels of the city; it is to pass a labyrinthine existence among streets that explode monotonously skyward with the spires…

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Harper’s Index

Minimum number of Muslims living in Norilsk, Russia, the site of the world’s northernmost mosque : 30,000 Average daily number of daylight hours Norilsk has during Ramadan this year : 23.8 Portion of people…

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Putin’s Double

By Emmanuel Carrère, from Limonov, to be published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Carrère’s books include The Adversary, My Life as a Russian Novel, and Lives Other Than…

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Each According to His Ability

From responses by Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) to authors who submitted manuscripts in 1920 to The Red Village, a newspaper that he edited. Platonov’s novels include Chevengur and The Foundation Pit;…

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A Cottony Fate

By Jane Hirshfield, from the Summer 2014 issue of The Paris Review. Hirshfield’s most recent book of poems is Come, Thief (Knopf).

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Brussels Spleen

From an outline for a book Charles Baudelaire planned to write on Belgium, where he lived from 1864 until shortly before his death, in 1867. The outline is published in…

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Racial Profiling

From a list of words used least often by Latino men, relative to other men, in personal profiles on the dating website OkCupid. Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think…

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