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Findings

Paintings by Dominique Goblet, from her monograph Ostende, which was published last year by Frémok. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Martel, Paris Paintings by Dominique Goblet, from her monograph Ostende,…

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Letters

In Memoriam Harper’s Magazine is saddened by the loss of Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., who served as an editor at the magazine from 1971 to 1975. Best known as the…

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Ina

Ina had lost her vision when she was only seventeen. She suffered a high fever due to a malady that had torn through the fiefdom. The entire family fell ill…

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Joy*

Like motion, clouds, and cold The advantages of being Also its disadvantages. My child was sleeping lightly, Crying out from time To time in response To one dim version Of…

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Fear and Loathing in Moscow

From “In Moscow, Russians Face the Vertigo of War,” which was reported from Moscow and published in March by L’Obs. The names of some subjects have been changed by the…

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Gauche

From descriptions of trips hosted by Young Pioneer Tours, which offers vacations to “destinations your mother would rather you stay away from.” south sudan budget tour The most affordable tour…

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Time Wasting

From Chronicle of a Hunger Striker, which is forthcoming from Deep Vellum. Sentsov was arrested in 2014 for protesting the Russian annexation of his native Crimea, and spent five years…

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Prime Factors

From A Divine Language, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1. Prime numbers are those that can be divided cleanly only by themselves and by…

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Terms of Endearment

From Companion Piece, a novel, which was published last month by Pantheon. Surface v depth: and if you said someone was light-timbered it meant they were a weakling, I told…

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Loss in Translation

From “Unspeakable Pain,” which was published in the Spring 2022 issue of The Yale Review. “I am Dr. Smith,” I say. “I am Dr. Jones.” For five hours a day,…

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Life, Inc.

From “Corporate Insecthood,” a study conducted by Nina Strohminger and Matthew Jordan, which will be published next month in Cognition. Participants were asked to rank various corporations and organizations on…

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Not Terrorized No

In memory of Marisela Escobedo, a Mexican activist who was assassinated in 2010 while protesting the acquittal of Sergio Rafael Barraza Bocanegra, who had confessed to murdering Escobedo’s teenage daughter.…

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Chew Your Own Adventure

From Letter to the Americans, which was written in 1949 after a visit to New York City. It will be published for the first time in English this month by…

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Naming Contentions

From a list of names that are banned around the world, collected by USBirthCertificates.com. Linda (Saudi Arabia) Sarah (Morocco) Judas (Switzerland) Osama bin Laden (Germany) Devil (Japan) Monkey (Denmark) Thor…

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New Books

“Domestic Pig—Sus scrofa domestica,” by Henry Horenstein, from the series Animalia © The artist Gustave Flaubert famously wanted to write “a book about nothing,” sustained only by “the internal force…

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The Secret History

Hernan Diaz dismantles the American dream

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Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Looking for demons in a disenchanted world

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Permanent Pandemic

Will COVID controls keep controlling us?

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The Girl in the Picture

Precocious puberty and its reflection

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The Matter of War

Photographs from Ukraine

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Temporary Housing

Only Greg ever noticed the notch in my tooth, and only in outline did I tell him about how I got it—how Guin and I stole that couple’s developed film…

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Made, Not Begotten

This is the new world that I read about at breakfast. This is the great age, make no mistake about it; the robot has been born somewhat appropriately along with…

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Power Failure

The unseen obstacles to progressive reform

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Broken Links

A young woman is waiting in her New York apartment for her fiancé to arrive and take her to city hall to get married. When he doesn’t turn up, she…

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Findings

We Met Thru Match.com, a mixed-media artwork by Tomokazu Matsuyama, whose work was on view in March at Kavi Gupta, in Chicago © The artist. Courtesy Kavi Gupta, Chicago Writing…

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Operation Overshare

How the White House misled Ukraine

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