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Vladivostok Station

On my way home today I saw someone in the field, someone I once knew. I was coming down the road from a hill and saw him from a distance.…

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New Books

In 1996, the Libyan writer Hisham Matar was living near the National Gallery in London. For six years straight he had been going to the museum, sometimes as often as…

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Peel Her a Grape

Sybille Bedford’s prudent hedonism

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Subterranean Homesick Muse

Seamus Heaney’s journey to the underworld

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Findings

Americans experiencing a medical emergency in public receive assistance from bystanders 4.2 percent of the time if they are white and 1.8 percent of the time if they are black,…

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Letters

Adverse Effects Andrew Cockburn’s analysis of the “election-industrial complex” [“Down the Tube,” Letter from Washington, April] argues, correctly, that the rise of super PACs has created a class of consultants…

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Harper’s Index

Minimum number of Beijing residents living in underground bomb shelters : 150,000 Percentage increase since 2014 in the annual number of reported labor strikes in China : 65 Minimum number…

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Trick of the Russian Soul

From Secondhand Time, an oral history of post-Soviet Russia compiled by Svetlana Alexievich and published last month by Random House. Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in…

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Monologue for Two Voices

By Jana Prikryl, from her debut collection of poems, The After Party, which will be published this month by Tim Duggan Books.

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Cinefiles

By Luc Sante, from an essay that appeared in March in Metrograph Edition, a publication of the Metrograph Theater in New York. Sante’s most recent book is The Other Paris.

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The Improbability Party

I like to think I’m unique. Don’t you? Complicated. Surprising. Unpredictable. I like to think that people who’ve only just met me or who know only the basic facts about…

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History of Violence

From Melancholy Accidents, by Peter Manseau. The book compiles colonial and early American newspaper reports of accidental gun deaths and was published in March by Melville House. Manseau is a…

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Auto Traitor

From a complaint filed in Texas in December by Mark Oberholtzer, the owner of Mark-1 Plumbing, against Charlie Thomas Ford, a car dealer.

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Beating Around the Bush

By Dorothea Tanning, from a letter written to Muriel Streeter in May 1947 and published in the most recent issue of A Public Space. Tanning was an artist and writer. Streeter…

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Deep Blues

From a conversation between Chen Zhiyan, a Chinese journalist, and three chatbots: Chicken Little, Little Ice, and Little Knoll. The interview was conducted on WeChat, a social-networking platform. It was…

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Love Machine

From tweets by @wikisext, a Twitter bot that creates sexual messages from random combinations of text found on wikiHow.

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Posturing

By Adam Ehrlich Sachs, from his debut collection of short stories, Inherited Disorders, which was published last month by Regan Arts.

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Fiber Optics, Holy Places

By Amie Barrodale, from “Night Report.” The story appears in You Are Having a Good Time, a collection of Barrodale’s fiction that will be published next month by Farrar, Straus…

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No-Name Calling

By J. D. McClatchy, from Sweet Theft, which was published in April by Counterpoint Press. The book collects notes and quotations compiled by the poet over three decades. McClatchy is…

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Hashtag Prescription

The hidden cost of crowd-sourcing a cure

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Trump’s People

Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa

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