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Trial by Media

From headlines published by the Guardian since 2009. Pablo Escobar’s hippos can restore a lost world Pablo Escobar’s hippos are people too Pablo Escobar’s hippos to cost Colombia $3.5 million Pablo…

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Repetition Compulsion

From articles by Anne Applebaum published in The Atlantic since 2021. Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, which is…

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Literary Matronage

From the introduction to The Family Diary, a 2024 planner edited by Julian Rothenstein, which was published last month by Redstone Press. If, when a child is growing up, it…

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Labor Pains

From “Dear Employee,” which was published in Issue 80 of Conjunctions. The announcement came in the mail: effective immediately, everyone was assigned a new job. Pay was $0 a week.…

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Hog Wild

From “The Maverick Pig,” included in the collection Pleasure of Thinking, which was published this month by Astra House. Translated from the Chinese. At the commune, I fed pigs and…

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Dancer From the Dance

From The Entanglement, which was published last month by Princeton University Press. When she dances, a young child already moves her body with a sensitivity to what is expected of…

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City in a Forest

The fight over Atlanta’s new police academy

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Letters

The Trauma Yacht Combining preposterous subject matter, pitch-perfect humor, and an irresistible voice, Lauren Oyler’s cover story [“I Really Didn’t Want to Go,” Letter from the Celebrity Beyond, May] has…

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Mojave Ghost

Now he’s watching scarves of cloud slide over the plane’s steel wing. Surely it’s real, this swirl of light. But the visions that confront him do not enter his life.…

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The Castle of Rose Tellin

Pen remembers it all. It was 1968. They took a family vacation to Sanibel. Pen’s father drove the station wagon. He held the wheel tightly and gritted his teeth and…

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Do Cartels Exist?

A revisionist view of the drug wars

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New Books

Blue Self-Portrait, by Arnold Schoenberg, circa 1910. Courtesy the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna The Lexicon of Musical Invective may be the only music reference book compiled mainly out of spite.…

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The Monroe Fantasy

At stake was more than some Caribbean island. America itself, one elder statesman informed the president, faced a crucial test “in the great struggle between liberty and despotism.” Would the…

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What’s Real

In the fall of 2014 I began attending hearings, some of them banal and procedural, others more emotional, for a Los Angeles murder trial that was cranking its way through…

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Seeing Through Maps

Photographs by Lisa Elmaleh for Harper’s Magazine © The artist I was splitting wood at sunset when the cat jumped up on the chopping block in front of me, arched…

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Findings

To be titled, a painting by Marc Padeu, whose work was on view in April at Peres Projects, in Milan, Italy. Courtesy the artist and Peres Projects Five-year-olds will believe…

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Take the Medicine to the White Man

A “Native American Church” without Native Americans

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Lions and Daughters

The underrated art of not getting gored

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Letters

Foul Is Fair Kyle Paoletta’s article [“The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday,” Criticism, April] tracks the shifting rhetoric of climate reporting in recent years from extreme pessimism to timid optimism. Is either…

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The Power of the Dog

From Animal Spirits, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Soon after he graduated in 1909, Aldo Leopold headed to the Southwest to take a job…

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Bikini Kill

From August Blue, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Vass decided to sail after all. He said the wind would calm down. The boat was…

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Good Grief

From a symposium on the topic of loss, which was published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Threepenny Review. The cult of loss has many enthusiastic members. And as…

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Ghost Protocol

From Lament for Julia, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. I did not love her at first; not for a long time. She did not…

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Dashiell, Hamming

From similes used in twentieth-century noir books and films, compiled in The Mysterious Romance of Murder, which was published last May by Cornell University Press. Impressive as an adoring moll…

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Stimulus Package

From the minutes of a meeting of the Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Board held on March 2. ashley cream: Good evening. I am here as a concerned citizen and…

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