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Remote Control

From a radio interview, by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, of the Israeli-British psychic Uri Geller, who published an open letter informing the British prime minister, Theresa May, that he would…

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All the While I Thought You Had Received This

All the While I Thought You Had Received This, a painting by Maia Cruz Palileo, whose work was on view in March at Monique Meloche Gallery, in Chicago. Courtesy the…

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The Tortoise and the Hedgehog

From his novel Remorse Test, which was published in 2017 in Lebanon and won the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature. A translated excerpt was published in April in…

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Dangerous Minds

From titles of books and periodicals that are banned, or of which issues are banned, in Louisiana state prisons. Pinterest for BusinessSmart Moves Beyond Mutual FundsO, The Oprah MagazineThe Prada…

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“Frieze”

“Frieze,” a photograph by James Nizam, whose work was on view last month at Gallery Jones, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Jones, Vancouver, British Columbia…

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+”pentium II” +”400mhz” racconti erotici_SATAI

+”pentium II” +”400mhz” racconti erotici_SATAI, a painting by Petra Cortright, whose work was on view in December at Société, in Berlin. Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin…

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Downstream

The afterlife of American junk

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Stonewall at Fifty

Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city’s most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall…

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Shadow Dancing

Infinity is a disco in Lower Manhattan. It is 3 a.m. on Friday, the dead of night, but the evening is not yet half over and there are still two…

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The Military-Industrial Virus

How bloated defense budgets gut our armed forces

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What it Means to Be Alive

Decoding a father’s farewell

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The Maid’s Story

The Gersons were a fairly unexceptional family. The maid had idly observed them upon their arrival at the Hotel Neversink as she vacuumed the length of the third-floor hallway. The…

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New Books

If there has ever been a historical moment apt to foster optimism of the intellect, right now would not appear to be it. So it’s heartening to see how much…

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Warm, Weird, Effervescent

Lore Segal reinvents the immigrant novel

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Findings

A new climate model that extensively cross-references atmospheric modeling with sedimentary records indicates that surface temperatures never exceeded modern preindustrial levels by more than 2º C in the past 2.6 million…

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Letters

Sport for Joe Andrew Cockburn’s portrayal of Joe Biden’s legislative career was seriously distorted [“No Joe!,” Letter from Washington, March]. As Biden’s European policy adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations…

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Harper’s Index

Factor by which the North Korean government’s hackers work more quickly than the Chinese government’s : 2 By which the Russian government’s work more quickly than the North Korean government’s…

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Kill Your Darlings

From Necropolis, which will be published this month by Columbia University Press. In the book, Khodasevich (1886–1939), a Russian poet, profiles Symbolists who lived in Russia in the early twentieth…

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Sorry State

From behaviors for which local, state, and federal politicians in the United States have, in the past year, publicly apologized. Posing with a Confederate flagDressing up as a Confederate soldierClaiming…

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Winning the Peace

In October 1939, C. S. Lewis delivered a sermon at Oxford’s University Church, later published under the title “Learning in War-Time.” World War II had been under way for just a…

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Both Sides Now

From Optic Nerve, a novel that was published last month by Catapult. Gainza has worked as a correspondent for the New York Times in Argentina. Translated from the Spanish by…

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Touchy Subject

From a lecture on education delivered to a group of Castleton University students and faculty by Adam Taylor, the superintendent of Rutland City Public Schools in Vermont. The talk was…

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No Reservations

From “The ‘Noble Indian’: A Godsend for the Extreme Right,” published in Le Monde last July. Translated from the French by John Cullen. Sitting Bull was a Sioux chief who…

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“Emily in the Greenhouse”

“Emily in the Greenhouse,” a photograph by Cig Harvey, whose work was on view last month at The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD, in New York City. Courtesy the artist…

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The Empire

The Empire, a painting by Enrique Martínez Celaya, from Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, published last month by D.A.P. © The artist…

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Vox Clamantis in Deserto

From descriptions of actions perpetrated by professors Todd Heatherton, William Kelley, and Paul Whalen in Dartmouth’s department of psychology and brain sciences, as alleged in a lawsuit filed against the…

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