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Mother Knows Best

From a lawsuit filed by Devin Nunes, a U.S. representative from California, against the Twitter user Devin Nunes’ Mom, whose identity is unknown. Nunes has denied the claims made by…

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Person

From Rough Song, a collection of poetry, which was published last month by The Song Cave. Varela (1926–2009) was a Peruvian poet and the first woman to win the Federico…

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Penal Estate

From a listing posted on August 12 by House of Brokers Realty, Inc., for a home in Fayette, Missouri. 203 east morrison street…

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Eyes on the Prize

From a study published in Communications Biology in August by researchers at the University of New South Wales and the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust. Scientists believe eye­like body patterns evolved…

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Fuzzy Math

8 From a study published this summer by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which researchers asked a sixty-year-old man who has category-specific metamorphopsia—which has rendered him…

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Militia Intent

From a speech delivered by Darryl Daniels, the sheriff of Clay County, Florida. A video of the speech was posted on the department’s Facebook page in June. Hey, folks. Me…

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A Gobble Without a Cause

From news reports of behaviors by wild turkeys across the United States between 2015 and 2019. Tearing up gardens Breaking off tree branches Chasing dogs Blocking traffic by gathering into…

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Is America Ungovernable?

The difference between protest and reform

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New Books

Blick auf den Tiergarten mit weißen Kugeln (Parkbild), by Max Beckmann © akg-images When we try to get at a work of art, words of criticism fail worse than anything—they…

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Because God Did Not Relax

The difficult pleasures of William Gaddis

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A Swing and Amis

On the perils of novelizing one’s life

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Three Poems

“you certainly have the right to your thoughts in this minefield”   All that’s dammed-up in your head, hammered by the whitewater current of your knowing better— the daily small…

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The Enemies Briefcase

Secret powers and the presidency

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The Grove

Then she suggested I make a list of all the things I’m grateful for. No entry is too small or mundane: access to clean water, fast internet, the weeping habit…

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New Poets

The Dogman snuck back from the bar with two Kölsches and stuck one in front of me. An old gesture. Old for us, old for history. “I quit drinking,” I…

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The Sultan of Sewers

I never wanted to be President. This innate decision was confirmed when I became literate and saw the President pawing babies and spouting bullshit. I attended Los Alamos Ranch School,…

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Making Meaning

Against “relevance” in art

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State of Exception

Lebanon’s cruel solution to the refugee crisis

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The Letter and Its Discontents

On July 7, we published on our website an open letter signed by more than one hundred and fifty prominent writers, artists, and scholars. “The free exchange of information and…

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A Game of Chance

Shirley Jackson’s devastating 1948 short story “The Lottery” takes place in what might be a provincial corner of America in which an annual, compulsory lottery lends a degree of adventure…

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No Time But the Present

From Breaking Bread with the Dead, which was published last month by Penguin Press. Navigating life in the internet age is a lot like doing battlefield triage. There are days…

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The Trouble with Angels

From Angels & Saints, which was published last month by New Directions. Surprisingly little was originally known about the angels. They are mentioned fewer than two hundred times in the…

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Motherboard Issues

From a conversation between Vladimir Alexeev, a data journalist, and GPT-3, a language generator developed by the artificial-intelligence laboratory OpenAI. GPT-3 learned to respond to questions by analyzing online data.…

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Not Throwing Away My Yacht

From The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, published this month by Archway Editions. The two-act play was written in response to the Broadway musical Hamilton, which Miranda composed based on a…

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Mortgage-backed Insecurities

From Having and Being Had, a book of non-fiction, which was published last month by Riverhead Books. Every year, financial advisers come to campus to meet with faculty, but I…

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