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Mental Object 7

Mental Object 7, a mixed-media artwork by Alice Quaresma, whose work was on view last September at Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and the Tappan…

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Moss and Ferns, Grass and Moss, Holes, and Leaves and Vines

Clockwise from top left: Moss and Ferns, Grass and Moss, Holes, and Leaves and Vines, paintings by Claire Sherman, whose work was on view last month at DC Moore Gallery,…

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Where Our New World Begins

Politics, power, and the Green New Deal

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Into the Woods

The idea for the Civilian Conservation Corps sprang into action almost overnight, in March 1933, during the magnificent ferment of the first hundred days of Roosevelt’s New Deal. It became…

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The Truce

How the United States helped spoil a plan to end gang violence in El Salvador

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Slash Fictions

A vandalized painting and the legacy of Ivan the Terrible

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Lost at Sea

Poverty and paradise at the edge of America

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New Books

Discussed in this essay: Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Penguin Press. 320 pages. $30. Humour, by Terry Eagleton. Yale University Press.…

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The Unexpected

“Thank you for the honor. I am very—honored.” You have been instructed to remove the clumsy black mortarboard at this point in the commencement ceremony. Now you incline your head…

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Ruina Mundi

Did climate change create modern civilization?

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Findings

Biologists who captured ninety-nine sea snakes off Costa Rica and offered them a drink found that 80 percent of the snakes accepted water late in the dry season but only 13 percent…

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Letters

Crimes and Misdemeanors I agree with Lionel Shriver’s assertion that the complete cultural banishment to which perceived sexual offenders are sometimes subjected is harsh, and mindlessly so [“Cruel and Unusual…

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No Exit

For American liberals, the European Union is a bastion of social justice, secular humanism, and civic virtue. Taxed gratefully into equality, its subjects spend their days recycling kefir containers and…

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Harpers’ Index

Percentage change since 1975 in the portion of Americans who hold hunting licenses : –38 Number of states that allow roadkill to be salvaged for food : 31 Number of…

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Salable Virtues

From Humanitarian Wars?, which will be published in April in the United Kingdom by Hurst. Brauman, a physician, was president of Doctors Without Borders from 1982 to 1994. This conversation,…

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The Time Vivarium-97

The Time Vivarium-97, a work on paper by Sun Xun, whose work is on view this month at ShanghART Gallery, in Singapore. © The artist. Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York…

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Southern Fan

From descriptions, published in a music review by Texas senator John Cornyn, of Neil Young’s 1972 album Harvest. The article was printed in February of that year in the Trinitonian,…

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Untitled

Photographs of toys made by children in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda, by Nora Lorek. © Nora Lorek/Panos Pictures

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“DNA #7797L-#7801R, 2018”

“DNA #7797L-#7801R, 2018,” a photograph by Michael Koerner, whose work was on view in March at the CEG Salon, in Chicago. Courtesy the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago…

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Occidents Happen

From the opening lines of chapters in A Short History of Europe, by Simon Jenkins, published in March by Public Affairs Books. It helps to be a god. As Zeus…

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America

From a manuscript in progress. Sharif’s previous collection of poetry, Look, was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press. I hadto. Ilearned it.It wasif. Ifwas nice.I saidsure. Onemore thing.One morething. Eatit…

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Come as You Are

From accounts of nonsexual orgasms documented in “Orgasm Range and Variability in Humans: A Content Analysis.” The study was published in the International Journal of Sexual Health in November of…

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The Indirect World

From The Besieged City, a novel that will be published this month by New Directions. Lispector’s novel The Chandelier was published last year by New Directions. Edited by Benjamin Moser…

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Turndown Service

From reviews, published on TripAdvisor, of the Henn-na Hotel, a robot-run resort in Japan that laid off more than half its automated workforce in January. Henn-na bills itself as a…

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Spectrum of Life I

Spectrum of Life I, a painting by Tizta Berhanu, whose work was on view in March at Addis Fine Art, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Courtesy the artist and Addis Fine…

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View Park, Number I

“View Park, Number I,” a photograph by Janna Ireland, whose work is on view this month at Antenna, in New Orleans. Courtesy the artist…

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