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Catechism of the Waters

Species in conflict on the Columbia River

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Run Me to Earth

They were released. For the first time in seven years, they stood outside in the courtyard of the reeducation center. They looked across at the gate. They remembered none of…

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New Books

Ten years ago, a week after his sixtieth birthday, and six months after his first appointment with an oncologist, my father died. That afternoon, I went to my parents’ bedroom…

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Mallo My!

Spain’s answer to Knausgaard arrives in English

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Not Mere Projection

Decoding the life and art of Cy Twombly

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Findings

The Alagoas foliage-gleaner, the black-faced honeycreeper, and the cryptic treehunter were declared extinct. A goose and a gull overdosed on opioids, and a drug-sniffing dog overdosed on ecstasy. Drones can…

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The Real Jimmy Carter

At 4:30 in the afternoon in the Admiral Benbow Inn in Jackson, Mississippi, Jimmy Carter sits opposite a dozen seventeen-year-olds, asking them to help him become president. “I grow peanuts…

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We Were So Happy Then

Life in the new South Africa

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Letters

A Question of Identity Mychal Denzel Smith’s essay about black public intellectuals is a nuanced examination of a complex dilemma [“The Gatekeepers,” Essay, December]. At one point, Smith expresses guilt…

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment

I have a new fear. And this one’s a doozy. I write a fortnightly column for the British barely right-­of-­center magazine (that’s left-­of-­center, in the United States) The Spectator. Having…

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Opportunity Cost

From Survival Math, which will be published in March by Scribner. Jackson is an associate professor of writing at New York University and the author of The Residue Years. He…

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White Out

From The White Book, published this month by Hogarth. Kang is a professor of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.…

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Bird of Paradise

Bird of Paradise, mixed media on canvas by Mark Bradford, whose work was on view last spring at Hauser & Wirth, in Los Angeles. © The artist. Courtesy the artist…

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Untitled

An untitled collage from the series The Eye Is Not Satisfied with Seeing, by Hai Zhang, whose work was on view in December at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, in New York…

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A Thousand Times Yeses

From headlines that have appeared in the New York Times since 2016. Compiled by Henry Freedland. Yes, the Truth Still MattersYes, the News Can Survive the NewspaperYes, There Have Been…

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Red Tape

From explanations given by the Chinese government for why certain artists and celebrities are banned from entering or performing in the country. Behaving badly in social lifeAssociating with countercultureUsing profanity…

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“Entanglement”

“Entanglement,” a photograph by Linda DeStefano Brown, whose work was on view in August in the exhibition Recreating Nature, at Fountain Street Gallery, in Boston. Courtesy the artist and Fountain…

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Garden

From No Matter, which will be published in July by Tim Duggan Books. Because of what I seemed reduced toand I’d expected moreI wore this blankeffectto the receptionnot discouraged, willingand…

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Interfering Patterns and Interfering Patterns and Ghosts

Interfering Patterns and Interfering Patterns and Ghosts, paintings by Eske Kath, whose work was on view in December at Galerie Mikael Andersen, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Courtesy the artist and Galerie…

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Fox

From a manuscript in progress. Carson’s collection of performance pieces Float was published by Knopf in 2016. The aunts sit along the wall in their narrow stone chairs that smell…

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Deep Deep Down

Deep Deep Down, a painting by Amy Casey, whose work was on view in January at Foley Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Foley Gallery, New York…

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Without a Trace

Missing, in an age of mass displacement

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What China Threat?

How the United States and China can avoid war

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Going to Extremes

Are homicides among the elderly acts of mercy or malice?

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“Tell Me How This Ends”

America’s muddled involvement with Syria

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Orphan Bachelors

Exclusion and Confession, the two slamming doors of America

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Russia and Red China

For the past six years the largest country in the world—with a quarter of the earth’s population—has been a blank space on the map of American foreign policy. For many…

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