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The death of China's most famous political dissident 

On Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War

For Texas’s non-white majority, there’s little to celebrate about a land grab perpetrated by white settlers

Rebecca Solnit, J. C. Hallman, Vivian Gornick, Dale Maharidge, and more

The many transgressions of Carolee Schneemann

Congressional Republicans reportedly said that US president Donald Trump was “nuts,” “unfit,” and “dangerous,” and that they were “praying” Trump didn’t “do something really, really stupid” before they reformed the tax code and then removed him from office; the Republican speaker of the House told Congress that they may need to work “till Christmas” to pass tax-reform legislation as soon as possible; and Trump complained about department stores using red decorations but not making their employees say “Merry Christmas” to customers. “America is a nation,” said Trump, “sustained by the power of prayer.” Read on...

From Know That What You Eat You Are: The best food writing from Harper's Magazine. 

A 64-year-old man brought ten suitcases containing an arsenal of legally-purchased rifles to a hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas, waited three days for the closing night of a country music festival being held about 500 yards away, and then opened fire on the crowd of 22,000 concertgoers below, killing 58 and injuring 489. Read more...

"It seems that the idea of giving any real help to black people put at a disadvantage by American history takes second place to eradicating that same tarnished history’s embarrassing representations."

"I met the Dark Lord and his masters at the trailhead to upper Twin Lake, far from the bright center of the universe." Read more...

"The night of the earthquake I was by myself; I lived alone. I thought, like so many Chileans, that it was the end of the world. I thought, above all, about how I had no one to protect."

Marilynne Robinson, Andrew Cockburn, Ben Mauk, Elisabeth Zerofsky, Eileen Myles, and more...

A visit with the man who has digitized more newspaper pages than the Library of Congress.

On August 25, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in southern Texas. The Category 4 tropical cyclone caused widespread flooding in the greater Houston area, killing at least seventy people and driving 30,000 from their homes. On September 3, photographer Balazs Gardi followed an armed group of local volunteers as they delivered supplies to flood victims in the rural towns of Vidor and Mauriceville. View photos...

Will the 9/11 case finally go to trial?

Hours before Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm, destroyed 90 percent of the structures on the Caribbean island of Barbuda, Rush Limbaugh, a talk-radio host who has said that the United States needs "segregated buses” and that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton castrates men and keeps their genitals in a “testicle lockbox,” went on the air and said that “these storms are never as strong as they’re reported.” Read more...

Lacs de Montagne, engraving, etching, aquatint, and drypoint, by Louise Bourgeois, which will be on view as part of the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, from September 24, 2017, to January 28, 2018. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Gift of the artist. © 2017 The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York City

Remembering John Ashbery

1: As 12,000 members of the National Guard rushed to the scene and hundreds more volunteers joined the relief efforts, President Trump tweeted: “Thanks!” Read more...

Remembering Kim Wall

The moon passed in front of the sun, casting a shadow over the United States. A police helicopter in Virginia fell from the sky, a U.S. destroyer collided with an oil tanker, discussions in the White House of launching a “preemptive war” against North Korea increased, and hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis armed with assault rifles and clubs held a nighttime march in Charlottesville, Virginia, gathering with torches around a statue of slave-owner and Confederate general Robert E. Lee and chanting that they will not be replaced by Jewish people. Read more...

Three days in Charlottesville

Seyward Darby on the women of the alt-right, Naomi Klein on our reality-television president, Alexandria Neason on Betsy DeVos's war on public education, a story by John Keeble, and more...