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The New Sobriety

By Rodney Koeneke, from Body & Glass, which was published last month by Wave Books. Liver, recover.  Years pass and are salutary. A thin scum coats the ornamental pond quickening…

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Exiled

Mike Pence and the evangelical fantasy of persecution

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Church and State

Buddhism meets the Chinese economy

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The Pictures

Securing Peter Hujar’s place among the greats

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An Ordinary Man

He stayed drunk the first week. He paced up and down the apartment howling, and Mrs. Voltaire hid behind the stove. After a week he went back to the office…

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Drinking Problems

A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis

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A Destruction Story

Introduction by Ben Lerner

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Nothing But

The untruths of memory

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Slingshot

I was seventy when I met Richard. He was thirty-two. He told me he was a young man, and I didn’t respond to that because I really didn’t know what…

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New Books

It’s hard for bookish people not to romanticize the act of reading—as a spur to imagination and compassion for others or just an escape from whatever real-life trap you may…

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Walk Away

Helen DeWitt’s uncompromising fictions

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A Perfectly Respectable Lady

The bowdlerization of Jean Rhys

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Findings

A two-year meta-analysis by the Rand Corporation found that the quality of gun-violence research in the United States is very low. Germans who played Grand Theft Auto V for two…

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Letters

The Braindead Megaphone “The Other Whisper Network” [Essay, March] is a rehash of Katie Roiphe’s decades-old argument that women are prone to hysterical overreactions to male sexual behavior. In the…

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Forget About It

In the uneasy months following 9/11, the Bush Administration provoked a minor controversy when it announced the name of a new office dedicated to protecting the United States from terrorism…

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Harper’s Index

Minutes for which food-storage containers must resist mauling to be designated “bear resistant” : 60 Portion of containers tested by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee that bears are able to…

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Women’s Troubles

By Abby Norman, from Ask Me About My Uterus, which was published last month by Nation Books. Norman is an editor at Futurism, a science and technology website.

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The Devil Wears Nada

From descriptions of professional tasks performed by Sandeep Rehal for Harvey Weinstein while she was employed as his personal assistant. She held the position from 2013 to 2015. In January,…

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Kiss and Tell

From a letter written by Marina Tsvetaeva to Boris Pasternak in 1927. Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) was a poet. The letter was included in the February issue of the PN Review. Translated…

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Bearer of Bad News

From the style guide of the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist news website. The guide, which was reportedly written by Andrew Anglin, the site’s founder and editor, was acquired in…

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Extortionate

By Andrea Brady, from a work in progress. Brady’s most recent book is The Strong Room (Crater Press).

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