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Star Search

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

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Pushing the Limit

What the U.S. Olympic Committee can — and can’t — do about sexual abuse

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Bumpy Ride

Why America’s roads are in tatters

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Flesh and Blood

Three close encounters with Sons and Lovers

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Two and Two

Among the folk invited to Tony’s wedding were the Hardcomes o’ Climmerston — Stephen and James — first cousins, both of them small farmers. With them were their intended wives,…

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Bad Dog

Abby was a breech birth but in the thirty-one years since then most everything has been pretty smooth. Sweet kid, not a lot of trouble. None of them were. Jack…

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New Books

When last we heard from Isabel Archer, she was on her way from London back to Rome, where her husband, the cruel, cosmopolitan aesthete Gilbert Osmond, was waiting. That’s how…

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Keeping Up Appearances

Jennifer Egan’s shallow depths

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Lean Out

Feminist struggles are labor struggles

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Findings

Physicists at the Linac Coherent Light Source created diamond rain. Researchers identified features that make some women’s faces significantly more attractive from the front than from the side. Software that…

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Letters

Green the Vote Richard Manning profiles the Democratic officeholders in Western states who are leading the fight for progressive environmental policies [“Political Climbers,” Report, August]. Manning believes that a pro-conservation…

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The Spaceship and the Moose

A dozen of us sat and stood around the campfire, guests at a lodge in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. My wife and I were there to hike and sleep and celebrate…

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Harper’s Index

Percentage of income and wealth taxes in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark that are evaded each year : 3 That are evaded among those nations’ top 0.01 percent of earners :…

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What Remains

By Richard Lloyd Parry, from Ghosts of the Tsunami, which was published this month by MCD. Parry is the Asia editor of the Times of London. On the afternoon of…

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Tobacco Shade

By Dawn Lundy Martin, from Good Stock Strange Blood, which was published in August by Coffee House Press. Martin’s previous book, Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life, won…

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A Sport and a Passport

From an interview conducted by Swiss authorities with Fulden Funda Yilmaz, a woman who was born to Turkish parents in Switzerland. Yilmaz applied for citizenship earlier this year, passed the…

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Shaggy Dog Story

By Eileen Myles, from Afterglow (A Dog Memoir), which was published last month by Grove Press. Myles is a poet and the author of twenty books.

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Embarrassment of ‘Wiches

From a correction that was published by the Louisville Courier-Journal in July.

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Irman

By Samanta Schweblin, from Mouthful of Birds, a collection of short stories that will be published next year by Riverhead. Schweblin’s first novel to appear in English, Fever Dream, was published last…

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Here Comes Everybody

From a complaint filed in March in a New York district court against Grindr, a dating app. The plaintiff, Matthew Herrick, alleges that vulnerabilities in Grindr’s geolocation feature allowed his…

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Rensselaer County, New York

The latest issue that has come before our village board is whether to add an animal-control regulation to the village laws. A member of the public has come to one…

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