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Ghosting the Machine

Humans, robots, and the new sexual frontier

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New Books

“Representation #16?18 (matchbook),” by Cynthia Greig © The artist. Courtesy Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts Readers of Elif Batuman’s delightful first novel, The Idiot, will need no introduction to its sequel,…

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The Love Feast

Seeing Auden in a new light

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In the Land of Living Skies

Reacquainting ourselves with the night

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Untitled

The poem, which is dated March 3, 1937, appears in Issue 51 of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Politics. Mandelstam (1891–1938) was a Russian poet who was arrested…

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An Idiom Abroad

From a series of lists compiled in Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats, which was published in November by Andrews McMeel Publishing. raining cats and dogs Raining old ladies and…

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More of a Comment than a Question

From comments sent to public school boards in the United States since last year. You are forcing them to wear masks for no reason in this world other than control.…

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Brave and Rational

From a series of diary entries from Kyiv, Ukraine, published daily on isolarii.com. february 24: I woke up early to see eight unanswered calls on my phone. It was my…

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The Sins of the Fathers

From things for which Roman Catholic popes have apologized. Colonialism Complicity in the slave trade Passivity during the Holocaust The Inquisition Systemic sexual abuse Missionaries in China Sins against the…

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Mistaking Identity

From Liberalism and Its Discontents, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Modern democracies are facing a deep cognitive crisis. For many years now, societies have…

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Office Politics

From London-rose, which was published last month by Semiotext(e). I’m embarrassed by the bitterness I am feeling. It’s as if I had been sipping poison for the past ten years…

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All in the Family

From “Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection,” which was published in the Winter 2022 issue of Dissent. Progressives have struggled to comprehend the foundations of the far right’s continuing…

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Peak Performance

From “Man Mountain,” a short story, which was published last month in the inaugural issue of Astra Magazine. I cannot say I fully understood where it came from, but I…

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Lost Cause

How police violence disappears from death certificates

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Days at War

Photographs from Ukraine

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Dreamland

I once awoke from a dream while crossing Bond Street in New York with a friend, and it was snowing hard. We had been talking, and there had been no…

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Worms

Baumgartner is sitting at his desk in the second-floor room he variously refers to as his study, his cogitorium, and his hole. Pen in hand, he is midway through a…

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The Spies Next Door

China’s covert campaign to intimidate Uighur exiles

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Night Shifts

Can technology shape our dreams?

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Skiing and Nothingness

My first skis, at age two, were Olin brand, a fluorescent coral pink. They had no edges. Their sidewalls were pure white, like cut cake. They glowed, a special and…

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Findings

Photographs by Albarrán Cabrera, from The World’s First Photobook Was Blue, which was published last year by Ira Stehmann, IBASHO, and the(M) éditions. The artists’ work will be on view…

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Letters

Xi Who Must Be Obeyed Ian Buruma’s analysis of China’s historical evolution and President Xi Jinping’s quest for national unity is informative and well supported [“The Great Wall of Steel,”…

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Notes on the State of Jefferson

A secessionist movement brews in northern California

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New Books

“Gary Indiana Veiled,” 1981, by Peter Hujar © 2022 The Peter Hujar Archive/Artists Rights Society, New York City Few writers are as keenly alive to absurdity or write with as…

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Future Nostalgia

Jennifer Egan’s old-world internet novel

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Who Killed Louis Le Prince?

On the forgotten father of film

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