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Behind the High Walls

On Giorgio Bassani’s Novel of Ferrara

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Harper’s Index

Percentage of pending cases at the European Court of Human Rights that were filed against the Russian government : 19 That were filed against the UK government : 0.5 Portion…

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Findings

Migrant women who have recently settled in Australia and Canada understand menopause both as an “Age of Despair” and “When Life Starts.” Extreme weight-loss behaviors are equally prevalent among US…

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Letters

State of Mind As a solution to conservatives’ stranglehold on federal politics, Jonathan Taplin posits a progressive federalism, under which environmental, economic, civil rights, and other reforms are undertaken by…

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The Crisis of Our Constitution

Lost in this past electoral season, one of the most vicious and frightening in American history, is how shaky the very foundation of our democracy is. Throughout Trump’s deformation of…

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Harper’s Index

Factor by which the number of Americans who identify as “former Catholics” has increased since 1975 : 4 Percentage of US Christians who say they have had fewer than ten…

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2020 Vision

From The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, published this month by Riverhead Books. Treuer is Ojibwe and from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. In 1863, Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk)…

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Swamp Things

From reported behaviors of Republican legislators who were elected or reelected in November. Posted erotic drawings of bigfootVoted to make it legal to kill hibernating wolves and bearsBragged about shooting…

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Group X, No. 2, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 2, Altarbild) and Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 1, Altarbild)

Group X, No. 2, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 2, Altarbild) and Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece (Grupp X, nr 1, Altarbild), 1915, oil and metalleaf paintings on canvas by Hilma…

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Pillars

Pillars, a painting by Andy Piedilato, whose work was on view last May at Art New York, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Danese/Corey, New York City

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Visits from the Goon Squad

From behaviors of Little Rock, Arkansas, police, cited by the department since 2007. The internal reports were made public in October, following an investigation of the killing of Bobby Moore,…

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The Water Theater

From a manuscript in progress. Smith’s chapbook, Zodiac B, was published by Ninepin Press in 2016. It is delightful to sit by the edge of the lake under the yellow…

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Untitled

Untitled, a painting by Stephanie Pierce, whose work was on view last February at Steve Harvey Fine Art Projects, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Steve Harvey Fine…

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Nostos

From a manuscript in progress. Every morning we wept an hour then went to see a toolwhining up from under the floorboards through himbarefoot in the doorway betrayed and unconsolableunable…

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Office of Misinformation

From a list of accounts purged by Facebook for spam and “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” released by the company in October. Wake The Fuck UpNation in DistressViral Alternative NewsRight-Wing NewsAnti-MediaExposing the…

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“Flowers for Lisa #39: After Georges Braque,” “Flowers for Lisa #62: After Louise Bourgeois,” “Flowers for Lisa #51,” and “Flowers for Lisa #55”

Top to bottom: “Flowers for Lisa #39: After Georges Braque,” “Flowers for Lisa #62: After Louise Bourgeois,” “Flowers for Lisa #51,” and “Flowers for Lisa #55,” photographs by Abelardo Morell,…

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Life’s a Beech

From Casting Deep Shade, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press next month. Wright (1949–2016) was a poet from the Arkansas Ozarks whose 2010 work, One With Others, was…

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Whisky Lullaby

From “Majed,” which appears in Elsewhere, Home, a collection that will be published next month by Black Cat. Aboulela is a novelist and playwright and was the first recipient of…

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Machine Politics

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

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Polar Light

Searching for the solar system’s origins at the end of the earth

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Unyielding Ice

On the sixteenth of July, 1905, the steamer Roosevelt left New York Harbor for her northern voyage. Her course from the anchorage was noisy with the friendly greetings of every…

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Donald Trump Is a Good President

One foreigner’s perspective

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Resistances

The prepositions you’re most likely to encounter after the title of a poem are “for” or “to” and sometimes “after”—“for my daughter”; “to Bobby”; “after Pound”; etc. They signify dedication,…

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Long Shot

The story of a Kurdish sniper

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Addie and the Chili

Years ago, Ellie asked me to write the story of our friend Addie and the chili. The incident involved some bowls of chili, and more than one woman crying, in…

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New Books

Could there be a more alarming role model for a writer than Scheherazade? You tell a story and, worst case, your head is cut off. Best case: the would-be decapitator…

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Home Truths

Pawe? Pawlikowski’s search for roots

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