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About the Fox and the Fox-hunters

The fox at last felt the necessity of a run for his life, for he mounted the bluff, stopped a moment to breathe the fresh air, and chose his course…

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Mad Magazines

Underground comics come to Egypt

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The Drums of Marrakesh

A Jamaican-born poet chain-smokes as he listens to a circle of drummers in the old market of Marrakesh, circa 2015. The drums sound in the present, but they also sound…

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Killer Bunny in the Sky

A drone war begins between vegans and hunters

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Undeceiving the World

Can a staged photograph tell the truth?

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Ex Post

The life of a woman of letters

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Glory

When Glory’s parents christened her Glorybetogod Ngozi Akunyili, they did not foresee Facebook’s “real name” policy, nor the weeks she would spend populating forms and submitting copies of her bills…

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New Books

Julia Ward Howe published her first book of poetry on December 23, 1853, when she was thirty-four years old. It must have made a rather nice Christmas present for her…

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New Drama

The Wooster Group, an experimental-theater company in New York, has been doing its ludic, fevered work for forty years now. Though its shows, in description, can sound like bad ideas…

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Beginning to See the Light

Religious conversion across the ages

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Circles and Lines

John Wray’s time machine

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The Hunger Artist

The appetites of M.F.K. Fisher

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Findings

Conservative voters value deep voices and square jaws, whereas liberal voters prefer feminine faces. Government instability leads both white and black Americans to favor light-skinned politicians. Dying black people may…

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Letters

Suspicious Activity It is a physician’s responsibility to give patients information about strategies that will help prevent adverse outcomes. As a doctor who focuses on high-risk pregnancies, I often ask…

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Rule, Britannica

They look like a segment of Borges’s Library of Babel: twenty-four volumes almost uniform in bulk (a thousand pages each, give or take a few), identically bound in a reddish-brown…

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Harper’s Index

Percentage of likely Republican-primary voters who support shutting down U.S. mosques : 27 Number of days before the Iowa caucuses that Ted Cruz officially entered the presidential race : 314 Length in days of…

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The Odd Couple

From West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by Jean Stein, published this month by Random House. Stein is the author of Edie:…

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Mad Maxims

From a list of aphorisms generated by randomly recombining the tweets of Deepak Chopra, and used in a study on “the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” by Gordon Pennycook,…

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Slow Feud

From messages between Shawn Musgrave, a reporter for MuckRock.com, and Kimberly Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, who defied an August 2015 court order to issue marriage licenses to…

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Recipe for Success

From complaints, some of which have been dismissed or settled, detailing the alleged theft or misappropriation of trade secrets since 2009.

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My Diagnosis

By Jeremy M. Davies, from The Knack of Doing, a collection of short stories that David R. Godine will publish next month. Davies is the author of two novels, Rose…

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You

By Eileen Myles, from a forthcoming collection. I Must Be Living Twice, a volume of Myles’s new and selected poems, was published by Ecco last September.

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