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Harper’s Index

Percentage of U.S. album sales represented by classical music : 2.5 Of U.S. music streams : 0.7 Amount spent globally on virtual goods within video games last year : $93,000,000,000…

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Letters

Socialism and Barbarism According to Aaron Lake Smith, who discusses the works of Vasily Grossman alongside my biography of the writer [“The Trials of Vasily Grossman,” Reviews, July], my book…

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The Deep State of Dementia

My first reaction upon seeing what was supposedly a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing what was alleged to be a mine from the broken hull of what we were…

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Harper’s Index

Rank of Canada among countries resettling the most refugees in 2018 : 1 Minimum number of years for which the United States previously held that distinction : 59 Percentage of…

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Baggage Claims

This is the story of a layover. Who tells that story? I’m telling it to you now. One January evening, my flight got delayed out of Louisiana, where I’d been…

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Bed Death & Beyond

From The Undying, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. There is no more tragic piece of furniture than a bed, how it falls so quickly from…

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Private Domain

Private Domain, a mixed-media artwork by Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, whose work was on view in April at the Carlow University Art Gallery, in Pittsburgh.

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Longing, To Hover and DT—Reminiscence, Will I Be Missed

Longing, To Hover and DT—Reminiscence, Will I Be Missed, paintings on burlap by Kaveri Raina, whose work was on view in August at Luhring Augustine, in New York City. © Kaveri…

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Regarding the Pen of Others

By Benjamin Moser, from Sontag: Her Life and Work, which will be published by Ecco this month. “In the Freudian conception,” wrote one author, “as it gradually emerged through these…

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Sundowner

From ECLIPSE, a manuscript in progress. It began with black maps. Distant points of light.Connecting the dots, she could see shapes forming in the firmament.Fragments of bodies. An arm. A…

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“Destroyed House Op Noord 5”

“Destroyed House Op Noord 5,” a photograph of an installation assembled in an abandoned house, by Marjan Teeuwen, whose work is currently on view at Les Rencontres de la photographie…

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Cogs of War

From the December 30, 1979, entry in his diary, which was released in May by the George Washington University National Security Archive. Chernyaev, a member of the Central Committee of…

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Freedom from Choice

By Pico Iyer, from A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, out this month from Knopf. Iyer, a British-­American essayist and novelist, has lived in Nara, Japan, since 1992. Japan is the…

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The Fruits of Suffering

From descriptions of dreams in The Grave on the Wall, a memoir by Brandon Shimoda, out this month from City Lights. The book is an elegy for the author’s grandfather…

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Big Cabin

From Big Cabin, which was published in July by Coffee House Press. I like it here in this cabin.I like looking out the windowat the pond and the trees beyondand…

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The Dancing Plague

The Dancing Plague, a painting by Andy Harper, whose work was on view in January at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, in London. Courtesy the artist and Danese/Corey, New York City

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Straight Talk Express

From an interview given to talkRADIO on June 25 by Boris Johnson, a former mayor of London and current British M.P. who, at the time of publication, was considered a…

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“Handkerchief 3,” “Handkerchief 2,” “Handkerchief 7,” and “Handkerchief 14”

“Handkerchief 3,” “Handkerchief 2,” “Handkerchief 7,” and “Handkerchief 14,” ambrotypes by Susan Seubert, whose work was on view in May at Froelick Gallery, in Portland, Oregon. Courtesy the artist and…

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The Wood Chipper

How the National Football League shops for players

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End Zone

The average athlete begins to wonder when his career is going to end almost as soon as he starts it—knowing that it either can be shortened with devastating swiftness by…

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Common Ground

The politics of archaeology in Jerusalem

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Love and Acid

On the road with a secret weapon

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Bite Marks

What a dental x-ray reveals about poverty

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The Black Axe

How a pan-African freedom movement lost its way

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Who Is She?

I couldn’t leave. I couldn’t get up—­just couldn’t get up, couldn’t get up or leave. All day lying in that median, unable. Was this misery or joy? It’s happened to…

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New Books

“Not a great writer, though a pleasant one” was Vladimir Nabokov’s verdict on Ivan Turgenev, the first Russian novelist to make an impact abroad. Nabokov—­who once complained about Henry James’s…

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Murder Italian Style

Sex, violence, and the crime that defined modern Italy

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