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On Moral Injury

Can a new diagnosis help heal our souls?

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Basement Suite

Left to our use are the fixtures and appliances Repented of by the homeowners Who don’t realize this is a way to know them. In the basement one is closer…

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The Counter-Monument

Disempowering a memorial to Fascism

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All My Pronouns

How I learned to live with the singular they

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In Plain Sight

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe

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False Dawn

A zuihitsu from the early months of the pandemic

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Nobody Gets Out Alive

Getting past the mastodon took planning. The great plated skull was wedged between the fireplace and the credenza, leaving the two ivory tusks splayed across the carpet where a coffee…

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Letters

Popular Semantics Thomas Frank’s brilliant article [“The Pessimistic Style in American Politics,” Essay, May] sheds light on the curious use of the word “populist” to describe authoritarians, and the significance…

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States of Emergency

When President Trump announced several months ago that the spread of the novel coronavirus constituted a national emergency, he invoked—whether he knew it or not—the National Emergencies Act, the 1976…

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Things to Come

On March 30, during one of the daily briefings on the COVID-19 outbreak that had so captured the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo uttered a sentence…

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Melancholy Science

From “Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment,” an essay from the collection Splinters in Your Eye, which will be published this month by Verso. On July 22, 2011, a neofascist Norwegian terrorist named…

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Soul Proprietor

From an interview with Tony Spell conducted in April by Victor Blackwell, an anchor for CNN. Spell, the pastor of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had been cited…

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Fever Dreams

From accounts of dreams reported during the novel coronavirus pandemic, collected in March and April by Erin Gravley and Grace Gravley on their “i dream of covid” website. I was…

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Near-Death Experience

From An Inventory of Losses, a collection of fictive essays that will be published next month by New Directions. Translated from the German. On an August day a few years…

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Old Ways

From Foxfire: Story, a collection of oral histories as told by people in the southern Appalachian Mountains, published in April by Anchor Books. The stories originally appeared in Foxfire Magazine.…

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The Gamblers

From Unwitting Street, a collection of short stories that will be published next month by New York Review Books. Translated from the Russian. They were two in a square unheated…

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Cat Ladies

From a study published in Biological Conservation by scientists at Nanjing University. The article, titled “Where there are girls, there are cats,” was published in February, then retracted without explanation.…

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Night Trees

From a manuscript in progress. each tree sticks itself upward dark into light or light’s the medium for each to define itself aslant against air saturated with water pixelated molecules…

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Rally of the Dolls

From guidelines for women presented in a series of infographics issued by the Malaysian government in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Translated from the Malay. Create a temporary workstation…

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The Hills Have Eyes

From images hidden by cartographers in maps of Switzerland that have been published by the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. A man overlooking the town of Interlaken from a summit…

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States of Care

From a report published in April by the Kaiser Family Foundation, detailing the amount of money each state received per COVID-19 case in the first round of grant funding under…

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The Last Picture Show

The national box-office report for the weekend of April 17–19, reflecting all self-submitted earnings by theaters in the United States, where government orders aimed at halting the spread of the…

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Burn After Eating

From responses to Freedom of Information Act requests regarding internal discussions about the food served at various government agencies and organizations. The documents, from between 2015 and 2020, were published…

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New Books

Spreading Fires During the Great Kanto Earthquake, a newspaper illustration of the 1855 earthquake in Edo, Japan. Courtesy Special Collections, Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library A metropolis can transform, and even…

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