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Cryptonomicon

Among the Bitcoin maximalists

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Your Own Devices

The Right to Repair movement gains ground

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Nomenclature for the Time Being

The apocalyptic reports have come true, dilute in our arterial solvent the atrocities saturate our latent notebooks we stay awake lambent there are iridium rectangles under our tables we meet…

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Another Green World

Can the planet’s ecosystems be replicated?

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The Great Wall of Steel

Xi Jinping remakes Chinese nationalism

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The Good Citizen

“I have just had a gratifying illustration of the conscientious perfection of the American people in enacting and enforcing a law when they are agreed that it is really for…

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Sample Truths

One of the few clear goods to have emerged from the social and political turmoil of the past decade is a collapse of faith in public opinion polls. Last fall’s…

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Findings

Left and right: Big Bang and Untitled (24″ Gong), by Milford Graves. Center: Love Inspiration, by Lois Graves. The works (acrylic on wind gongs) were on view last summer at…

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Letters

Bavarian Rhapsody I don’t think Lauren Oyler was quite fair in accusing W. G. Sebald of excising all evidence of modernity [“Desperately Seeking Sebald,” Review, December], particularly when she lays…

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New Books

Schiller’s Garden House, Jena, by Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger © akg-images By the year 1800, the French Revolution was over, the ancien régime a thing of the past, the…

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National Treasure

The ecstatic cult of Nicolas Cage

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Free Country

Permitless carry and the new gun-rights extremism

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Two Poems

rose-crowned night girl I am pointless. This I come to know, by pressing ear to night’s machinery. Outside, the words rub each other until they are dull: calibrate, resurface, surface,…

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Late at Night

Long after his fiancée had fallen asleep in bed, Adam Edwards read next to her on his phone. He thumbed the screen to scroll through a long article. The words…

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Artless Response

From letters exchanged in 1982 between the Whitney Museum of American Art and an author and critic referred to here as E.R. Harper’s Magazine obtained the letters in November.  …

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Old Friends

View Fullscreen Last month’s solution View Fullscreen…

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Cutting Lines

From the lyrics of a song sung in Polish by a plush dancing cactus. The toy is marketed as an educational tool for children and was sold on Walmart.com until…

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Blast Rites

From promotional materials for a mobile field altar. In October, the Polish defense ministry announced plans to purchase three hundred altars, which reportedly included chalices, crosses, candlesticks, and camouflage liturgical…

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Separate and Unequal

From The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, which will be published this month by Verso. The everyday life of the segregation era is not much discussed outside academia. More…

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Campaign Fowl

From an interview with Jim Puckett, the mayor of Fitzgerald, Georgia, that was conducted in November by the CBC Radio correspondent Carol Off. Puckett lost his 2021 bid for reelection…

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Uncool Whip

From complaints submitted to the City of Reno, Nevada, last year. One night this summer I was walking with my wife and two friends from out of town. We witnessed…

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Bond Market

From “License to Dine: 007 and the Real Exchange Rate,” a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which compares the evolution of James Bond’s salary with that…

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Wildlife Fund

From “Animal, Vegetable, Capital,” an essay that appeared in Issue 3 of Lux Magazine. Recently, following some rounds of trial and error in search of food that wouldn’t upset my…

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The Bathers

From Portrait of an Unknown Lady, a novel, which will be published next month by Catapult. Translated from the Spanish. I had been working in the art valuations department at…

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Yacht to Know Better

From “Why yachting families make great climate caretakers,” which was published in November on the website Superyacht Life. The average superyacht is estimated to produce 7,020 tons of carbon dioxide…

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Everyone’s a Critic

From a list of accidental damage done to works of art since 2000, collected in Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists, and the Art World, which will be published this…

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Feast of the First Morning of the First Day

From A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, a poetry collection, which was published in April 2021 by Wave Books. You want money to flow into the house like water…

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