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Baked Alaska

From interviews with Yup’ik hunters and elders in the Alaskan villages of St. Mary’s and Pitka’s Point by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, conducted as part of a study…

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The Art of Waiting

From the March/April 2012 issue of Orion. Boggs is the author of the short-story collection Mattaponi Queen. It’s spring when I realize that I may never have children, and around…

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Findings

Entomologists re-created the chirping of the Jurassic bush cricket, and Russian soil cryologists cultivated a 31,800-year-old plant from a fossilized squirrel burrow in Siberia. It was determined that ancient Egyptians…

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Aretha

How she got over

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Train

This is a slow train anyway, and it has slowed some more for the curve. Jackson is the only passenger left, and the next stop is about twenty miles ahead.…

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Slipping through the net

Cambodia’s border war against drug-resistant malaria

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The Warrior Class

A golden age for the freelance soldier

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I Can’t Read

From The Secret of Evil, a collection of writing found on Bolaño’s computer after his death in 2003, out in April from New Directions. Translated from the Spanish by Chris…

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