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Capital Gains Tax

From interviews with former Taliban fighters conducted in Kabul and published by the Afghanistan Analysts Network in February. Translated from the Pashto. Leaving the Taliban’s friendly environment was difficult. There…

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Findings

Artificial intelligence researchers estimated that, among categories of domestic labor, grocery shopping is the most automatable and childcare the least.

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They Will See It Coming

This is the story of two scientists. Their search began five years ago with a single radiocarbon clue from the ocean floor. It led over many continents and seas, to…

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The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday

How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm

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The Melancholy Universe

Michael H. Parkinson reappears on the No. 56 streetcar

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Recovery

April said that when she got healthy—if she did, she said, if—she wanted to have Julia’s body. It was the ideal, April said, curvy but still thin enough, I should…

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Disappear Here

There was a football game that afternoon at Buckley and though I can remember who I masturbated about on that early October day (I wrote it down—I kept lists, a…

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In Search of Lost Time

The science of the perfect second

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Numinous Strangers

The enduring allure of pilgrimage

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New Books

Left: “Milan Kundera, Prague, 1969,” by Gisèle Freund © The artist. IMEC/Fonds MCC/Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York City. Courtesy Galerie Franz Swetec, Düsseldorf. Right: “Rising of Rudé právo,” by…

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Findings

“99 Moons No. 151,” “99 Moons No. 83,” “99 Moons No. 60,” by Claire A. Warden, whose work is on view as part of the exhibition Under the Sun and…

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Signs and Wonders

Charles Portis and the art of getting out in time

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Letters

Live and Let Die Michel Houellebecq suggests that agitating for medical assistance in dying infantilizes those who seek relief when their suffering becomes intolerable [“The European Way to Die,” Revision,…

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To Attis

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Lone on the Range

Prairie madness on the Great Plains

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Lots to Lose

From Paved Paradise, which will be published next month by Penguin Press. Parking psychosis is a regular feature of American life. The former NFL safety T. J. Cunningham was killed…

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Revisionist’s History

From an undated entry in The Diaries of Franz Kafka, which was published by Schocken Books in January. Translated from the German. 1. When I think about it, I must…

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Show Don’t Tell

From “Should Writers Talk?,” a discussion that was held in January at the University of Chicago. agnes callard: One of the reasons you give for why writers shouldn’t talk is…

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The Feminine Mistake

From “The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife,” which was published in the Winter 2023 issue of Dissent. Love is the ultimate value, and love is under threat: That is the rumor…

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

From “Till One or the Other Gits Back,” which is collected in The Caterpillar Dogs and Other Early Stories, out this month from New Directions. She stood now at the…

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Conspicuous Combustion

From the abstract of “Small Penises and Fast Cars,” a study conducted by researchers at University College London. In this experiment, we manipulated what men believed about their own penis…

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Comparative Literature

From similes used by the critic Dwight Garner in book reviews for the New York Times since 2017. Like frogs run over by a lawn mower Like a goose dementedly…

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Hyperbole Pulpit

From assertions made by current members of Congress. Claimed to not drink alcohol, before being arrested for drunk driving Claimed to be a consultant for Dow Jones & Company because…

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Insider Trading

From a bill proposed in the Massachusetts legislature in January. The Commissioner of the Department of Correction shall establish a bone marrow and organ donation program and a bone marrow…

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At Random

The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

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Knights-Errant

Online chess reshapes the game of kings

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