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A Grim Fairy Tale

So, it happened. Mythmaking beat math. Drama put data in its place. A candidate who styled himself a renegade outsider has become the forty-fifth president. It’s almost as though a…

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Harper’s Index

Cost of a baby-stroller cleaning, with wheel detailing, at Tot Squad in New York City : $119.99 Percentage of Americans worth $25,000,000 or more who make at least $10,000 in charitable contributions…

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The Moods of Animals

By Cyrus Console, from Romanian Notebook, a memoir that will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Console is the author of two volumes of poetry. His poem…

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Crash-Test Dummy

From exercises presented by the Moral Machine, a website developed by MIT. The exercises ask users to decide which outcome a self-driving car should choose in the event of sudden…

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No Child Left Behind

Methods women have used to induce abortion at times throughout history when clinical procedures were illegal or unavailable.

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Public Display

From a conversation between Eileen Myles and Jill Soloway that was held in October at the Hammer Museum, in Los Angeles. Myles is the author of nineteen works of poetry,…

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Locker-Room Talk

From accounts of incidents in which women allege that they were sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump. The accusations were told to journalists and lawyers over the past four…

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To Have and to Hold

From the website of Finland’s World Wife-Carrying Championships. The competition has been held annually since 1995.

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On First Thought

From a list of clichés that authors have used in more than half their works. The list was compiled by Ben Blatt and appears in Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve,…

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Soul Check

From The Daily Show (The Book), which was published in November by Grand Central Publishing. Elliott Kalan was a writer on the show, and Rob Corddry, Ed Helms, and Stephen…

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Comeback City

By Nathaniel Mackey, from Late Arcade, which was published this month by New Directions. The book is the fifth installment in From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate,…

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Where Windows Should Be

By Tongo Eisen-Martin, from Heaven Is All Goodbyes, which will be published this fall by City Lights Publisher. Eisen-Martin is the author of Someone’s Dead Already (2015).

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Trump: A Resister’s Guide

We have a new president who is also a new kind of president. Our previous chief executives — at least those of the post–World War II era — were not…

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On Martin Luther King

He is perhaps the best speaker in America of this generation, but his speech before the huge crowd in the U.N. Plaza on that afternoon in mid-April was bad; his…

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Little Things

The outsized pleasures of the very small

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The Patient War

What awaits Trump in Afghanistan

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The Number That No Man Could Number

Black America’s civil war over gay rights

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Remainers

When I read Graham Foust, I’m put in mind of both Wallace Stevens and Johnny Cash. (Foust, who was born in Tennessee, entitled one poem “Nuances of a Theme by…

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JB & FD

(1) To need his glasses and be struck by an awareness that they are not at hand, an ordinary enough circumstance for Frederick Douglass, except sometimes it’s accompanied by a…

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New Books

George Saunders is the most humane American writer working today. He need not ask, as Sheila Heti did in the title of her novel, how a person should be. He…

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Blood and Soil

The rise of vindictive nationalism

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Life Choices

Paul Auster’s multitudes

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