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Pinball Wizard

From Lowest White Boy, published in May by West Virginia University Press. He lumbered around a friend’s neighborhood on the other side of the city, slow and friendly, a 250-pound…

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Ramblin’ Man

From This Land, which will be published this month by Viking. Ketcham is a journalist who reports on the American West. His most recent article for Harper’s Magazine, “The Rogue…

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Something True

From his novel Turbulence, published this month by Scribner. She woke to the dim stillness of the cabin. This had already happened several times, and each time what she had…

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I Contain Platitudes

From statements made by Joe Biden, current presidential candidate and former vice president, since he first ran for office in 1969.

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Alms for the Führer

From a list of gifts given to President Trump by foreign officials in 2017, which was published by the State Department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol in March. The…

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The Street Knows It’s Changed

From a manuscript in progress. The street knows it’s changed its direction.once it was here now it’s the way tosomeplace else benches had waiting

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Party Fouls

From descriptions of behaviors considered by the Chinese government to be signs of extremism, as compiled in China Story Yearbook: Power, edited by Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Paul J. Farrelly,…

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Depend on the Morning Sun

Depend on the Morning Sun, a painting by Diana Copperwhite, whose work was on view in May at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and…

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“Swimming pool III, Tracks series, Bamako”

“Swimming pool III, Tracks series, Bamako,” a photograph by François-Xavier Gbré, whose work was on view in March at Museo MAN d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy. © The artist and…

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“Floresta Negra #6” and “Floresta Negra #1”

“Floresta Negra #6” and “Floresta Negra #1,” photographs by Ruud van Empel, whose work was on view in June at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, in London. © The artist. Courtesy Huxley-Parlour Gallery,…

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A stone and a star

A stone and a star, a painting by Hollis Heichemer, whose work was on view in May at Hollis Taggart, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Hollis Taggart,…

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GSENM: Slot Canyon #1

GSENM: Slot Canyon #1, a mixed-media artwork by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, whose work was on view in February as part of the exhibition Borders, at James Cohan, in New York…

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El Corralón

Bayview, Texas, the Immigration and Naturalization Service Processing Center. The camp lies well to the north of the Rio Grande, covering 317 acres of the flatlands beside the Gulf of…

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Marmalade Sky

On a November Saturday in 1990, Pam went over to Joe’s place to listen to records. It was raining in sheets that whipped around the corners of buildings and blowing…

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New Books

Discussed in this essay: Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, by Cecelia Watson. Ecco. 224 pages. $19.99. Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer,…

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The Trials of Vasily Grossman

A twentieth-century Tolstoy and his forgotten novel

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Findings

Among a million species now threatened with extinction, marine species are disappearing at twice the rate of terrestrial species, and British hedgehogs are in decline, possibly owing to a loss…

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Is Poverty Necessary?

An idea that won’t go away

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Letters

Brexit Wounds On the matter of Britain’s membership in the European Union, which Lionel Shriver discussed in her fascinating recent column [“No Exit,” Easy Chair, April], I am a reluctant…

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Fifty-Fifty Follies

Last spring, the BBC officially took up a “50:50 challenge” to achieve an equal number of male and female experts on news and current-events shows within the following year. We’re…

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Harper’s Index

Number of tickets issued by the New York Police Department for sex in public parks in 2007 : 432 Number it issued last year : 6 Percentage by which membership…

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Ars Oblivionalis

From A Primer for Forgetting, out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. anti-mnemonicsUmberto Eco writes that “once, as a joke, some friends and I invented advertisements for university po­sitions…

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Southern Cone

From Be Recorder, which will be published in August by Graywolf Press. I wept with my grandmother when Reaganwas shot because that’s what she wanted.At night, she’d tell me about…

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Hat in the Ring

Hat in the Ring, a mixed-media artwork made of found tin collaged on wood, by Tony Berlant, whose work is on view this month at Brian Gross Fine Art, in…

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“O emetse mohala”

“O emetse mohala,” a photograph by Lebohang Kganye, whose work was on view in February at Rose Gallery, in Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Afronova Gallery, Johannesburg…

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