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Farther Away

From his prose poem, Underworld Lit, which will be published in August by Wave Books. Though my catalog search under “postpartum depression” turns up everything from Euripides’ Medea to the…

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Trumpism After Trump

Will the movement outlive the man?

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The Radical Right

In tracing the pedigree of the American conservative movement we must note that from, say, 1935 to 1955 (from the rise of Father Coughlin to the demise of Joseph McCarthy),…

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“My Gang Is Jesus”

Brazil’s evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade

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The Cancer Chair

Is suffering meaningless?

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The Birds

Amazon dreams of a drone-filled sky

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The Skinning Tree

America’s redface problem onstage

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The Interpretation of Dreams

It is 1924. Günter Zeitz is thirty-three years old. His hair is black, unruly. And, in the manner of certain very tall men, he habitually hunches his shoulders and lets…

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New Books

There’s much to be said for being maladjusted. More and more, perhaps, as the environment to which one is expected to adjust becomes more ruinous. The climate activist Greta Thunberg…

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Dearest Lizzie

The end of a literary marriage

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Selective Hearing

On the specious new history podcasts

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Findings

Scientists confirmed that toddlers have temper tantrums when they do not use their words and that the practice of limiting oyster consumption to months ending in r has been observed…

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Dantor a Anais and Sanité Bélair

Dantor a Anais and Sanité Bélair, mixed-media artworks by Didier William, whose work is on view this month at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in Hartford, Connecticut. Courtesy the…

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The Country in the Woman

From Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick, a book of short stories including previously uncollected work, published this month by Amistad. “L ooka heah Cal’line, you oughta stop dis heah…

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On Courage

As of this writing, we are still about three months away from the first vote of the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination—­and already “our side” seems set to tear…

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Leftovers

From Children of the Land, a memoir published this month by Harper. Hernandez Castillo was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States when he was five years old.…

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Paperback to the Future

From Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader, a collection of essays published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The other day I was asked a question of fact…

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Vicious Cycles

Theses on a philosophy of news

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The Whale Mother

As promised in the email she’d received, the shuttle was waiting at the curb outside baggage claim. It was just a minivan, it turned out, not the wheeled and finned…

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Letters

The Fall of Men Barrett Swanson’s take on Evryman retreats and the “new men’s groups” [“Men at Work,” Report, November] is understandably skeptical. As a veteran of several of these…

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Criminal Minds

Just over an hour after he had been threatened with assassinationin Sacramento, President Ford spoke about the troubling rise in crime in the United States. The little of his remarks…

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Existential Noir

On the fiction of Juan Carlos Onetti

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Minor Threats

By Jean Genet, from The Criminal Child: Selected Essays, published this month by NYRB Classics. This text is an abridged version of the essay “The Criminal Child,” which was commissioned…

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“Untitled (Forest 2)”

“Untitled (Forest 2),” a photograph by Sandra Kantanen, whose work was on view in November at Elizabeth Houston Gallery, in New York City. Kantanen’s monograph, More Landscapes, was published last…

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Election Bias

The new playbook for voter suppression

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Nurses with Wine

Nurses with Wine, a painting by Alex Kanevsky, whose work was on view in September at Hollis Taggart, in New York City. © Private collection. Courtesy the artist and Hollis…

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