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The Castro

It was no coincidence that homosexuals migrated to San Francisco in the Seventies, for the city was famed as a playful place, more Catholic than Protestant in its eschatological intuition.…

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Swap Meet

Wall Street’s war on the Volcker Rule

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The Newlyweds

What’s at stake when you marry for love?

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Walk the Line

The unlikely origins of the US-Mexico border

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Body Politic

Saudi women push for the right to exercise

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The Human Factor

How I learned the real meaning of dissent

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Munich, 1938

The Regina Palast was an immense, monumental gray stone cube of a hotel, built in 1908, with Versailles-style reception rooms, a Turkish bath in the basement, and three hundred bedrooms…

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New Books

Close your eyes and picture the American dream. At the turn of the millennium, Mokhtar Alkhanshali, the scion of Yemeni immigrants, is growing up in a tiny one-bedroom San Francisco…

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After the Revolution

Three novels of Egypt’s repressive present

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Mr. Mailer Goes to Washington

The Armies of the Night fifty years on

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Findings

Psychopathy may be an evolutionary complement to altruism in that it allows one group member to sacrifice another for the greater good. People who feel they are disadvantaged are likelier…

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Letters

Kingdom Come Andrew Cockburn [“Crime and Punishment,” Letter from Washington, October] draws much-needed attention to Saudi Arabia’s deceitful lobbying campaign to derail the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA),…

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On the Corner of Myth and Main

There was a time when I didn’t know that I lived in Middle America. When I was very young, growing up in eastern Minnesota, I thought I was just an…

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Harper’s Index

Minimum number of times since September 2015 that Donald Trump has referred to Christmas in speeches : 23 Number of those references that suggested the holiday was under attack : 19 Median age of voters…

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Before I Sleep

By Henry Marsh, from Admissions, a memoir about his life as a neurosurgeon. The book was published in October by St. Martin’s Press. Marsh is the author of Do No Harm.

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Thought Police

From a ruling handed down in September by a Louisiana district court in Officer John Doe v. DeRay Mckesson et al. The anonymous Baton Rouge police officer filed suit last…

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Chronicle of Dire Education

From news reports of homework given to students in US public schools since 2011.

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Document of Barbarism

From The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. The book was published last month by the University of Chicago Press. Arendt, Scholem, and Walter Benjamin were German-born Jewish philosophers.…

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God Among Men

From Bakkhai, a translation by Anne Carson of the play by Euripides. The book was published this month by New Directions. The adaptation was produced in 2015 by the Almeida…

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Poem with Orpheus

By Emily Skillings, from Fort Not, her first book of poetry. The collection was published by The Song Cave in October.

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The Send-Off

By Philippe Claudel, from Inhumaines, which was published by Stock earlier this year. Claudel is a novelist and filmmaker. Translated from the French by Camille Bromley.

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Raise the Red Pen

From a list of prohibitions for online media, including video-streaming sites, circulated in June by the China Netcasting Services Association, a state-controlled body that oversees more than 600 media companies.…

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