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At the Mind’s Limits

From transcripts of interviews conducted by David Stavrou with Sayragul Sauytbay, a Uighur woman from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, where the United Nations estimates that between one…

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Koftaesque

From an account told to Witold Szabłowski by Abu Ali, a former cook for Saddam Hussein. The story is included in Szabłowski’s book How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein,…

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A View to a Krill

The first history of the most remote ocean

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New Books

Design for a grotesque mask by Johann Ulrich Stapf © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Witch hunts have always been a tool of those in power. As such, they shed…

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Out of Africa

The legacy of colonialism threatens the future of genetic research

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Nighthawks at the Dunkin’

From This Brilliant Darkness, out last month from W. W. Norton. The book is composed of short essays about encounters Sharlet had while photographing strangers. mike All photos by Jeff Sharlet The…

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Moby Sick

From items found in the stomachs of dead whales since 2010, as described in news reports. Fishing nets Bundles of rope Corrugated tubing Duct tape Shopping bags Banana bags Rice…

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Mr. Me Too

From lyrics referring to Donald Trump in rap songs catalogued by Genius.com. Rich Well-known Over-tan Orange Pink All-American High drama Living large On the links On the news Making big…

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Waiting for the End of the World

Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction

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Ring of Fire

From “Phone Calls from the Apocalypse,” an essay in the collection Thin Places, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Fun with Problems

The life of Robert Stone

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A Walk to Remember

From At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life, published this month by W. W. Norton. When I imagine my death, I do not see myself surrounded…

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Spellbound

From the novel Hurricane Season, which will be published this month by New Directions. They say she never really died, because witches don’t go without a fight. They say that,…

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As You Wish

From actions since 2006 taken by American companies and institutions to appease China. Censored music that refers to the Tiananmen Square massacreCanceled a lecture on women’s rightsRemoved an app that…

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Letters

A Shack of One’s Own Thanks to Wes Enzinna [“Gimme Shelter,” Letter from California, December], I finally understand why millennials hate baby boomers. In many ways, my own experience has…

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An Incoherent Truth

Last fall, Tobi Haslett, a young writer and critic with Marxist leanings, noticed a shift in the contours of popular intellectual debate. “Something is happening out there in the dark…

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Harper’s Index

Portion of South Koreans who say they would support North Korea in a war with Japan : 1/2 Estimated number of drones that governments worldwide will purchase in the next…

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Search and Destroy

By Joanne McNeil, from Lurking: How a Person Became a User, published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A user of Google products might be put off by the…

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“Usine Alstom Belfort Photo No. 5 Halle Alternateurs”

“Usine Alstom Belfort Photo No. 5 Halle Alternateurs,” a photograph by Stéphane Couturier, whose work was on view in January at Galerie Kornfeld, in Berlin. Courtesy the artist and Christophe…

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Baby Boomers

From actions of hosts and attendees at gender-­reveal parties since 2017. Struck a grandfather in the face with a baseball filled with blue powderBroke an ankle kicking a football filled…

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Invisible Man

From a deposition given last year by Dominic Ryan, the general manager of Founders Brewing Company, to Jack Schulz, a lawyer for Tracy Evans. In 2018, Evans, an employee at…

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Blue Isabelle and I Stop, I Look

Blue Isabelle and I Stop, I Look, mixed-media artworks by Sarah Amos, whose work will be on view in March at Heather Gaudio Fine Art, in New Canaan, Connecticut. Courtesy…

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“Thief of the Tree”

“Thief of the Tree,” a photograph by Michael Lundgren, whose monograph Geomancy was published in September by Stanley/Barker. © The artist. Courtesy Stanley/Barker and Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco

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Free Bird

By Sierra Crane Murdoch, from Yellow Bird, published this month by Random House. The book investigates a disappearance on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and explores how…

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Smote Like a Butterfly

From names of military drones used by countries around the world, as compiled in The Drone Databook, by Dan Gettinger, published last year by the Center for the Study of…

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Spit Take

From A Czech Dreambook, published last month by Karolinum. Vaculík, a Czech dissident, was the author of “Two Thousand Words,” a June 1968 manifesto that called for the democratization of…

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Here and There

From Apeirogon, published this month by Random House. The book is a fictionalized account of the lives of Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli. Aramin’s ten-year-old daughter,…

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