“Little boys” negotiate the U.S. government shutdown and debt ceiling, Bashar al-Assad wants his Nobel Peace Prize, and the Vatican tells the world about Lesus
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“All of these practices are flagrant violations of the law.”
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Nathaniel Rich on cults, Ken Silverstein on Louisiana oil lawsuits, and a story by Joyce Carol Oates
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Our warmest congratulations to Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The U.S. government shuts down, African migrants capsize in the Mediterranean, and miscellaneous global crushings
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Dame Margaret Drabble on the essayistic voice in fiction and North London anthropology
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Audrey Petty on the history of Chicago public housing, the intimacy of oral histories, and reconstructing demolished communities
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Obama and Rouhani make nuclear chitchat, Ted Cruz gets squirrelly, and Cambridgeshire loses a tea-and-bondage party
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The Brontë sisters’ devoirs on filial love, under the instruction of Constantin Heger
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J. B. MacKinnon on human efforts to engineer nature, and whether we can restore what we've lost
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Deadly terrorist attacks in Nairobi and Peshawar, House Republicans attempt to defund Obamacare, and a bookless library opens in San Antonio
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“December 5th, 2012,” an archival pigment print by Zipora Fried, whose work appeared in the Readings section of the October 2013 issue. Fried's work was on view in February at the Clocktower Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and On Stellar Rays, New York City
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A(nother) mass shooting in the United States, a deal on Syria’s chemical weapons, and notes on Arkansan squirrel cuisine
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When the facts won’t convince the public to march into battle, politicians ramp up the rhetoric
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Why can’t we indict Bashar al-Assad at the International Criminal Court?
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The show trials at Guantánamo Bay, Bela Bartók’s monsters, the fate of Russia’s adopted children, and new fiction by T. C. Boyle
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The Syria debate continues, the NSA breaks encryption routines, and a Windischeschenbach tubist complains about sex
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“J. D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit,” (October 1962) makes an appearance in a new documentary
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The United States debates a military strike in Syria, Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiates at a same-sex marriage, and KFC Japan begins selling deep-fried soup
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Smoke Bomb, a painting by Alex Roulette, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our September 2013 issue. Roulette’s work was on view in May at Fisher Landau Center for Art, in Long Island City, New York. Courtesy the artist and Fisher Landau Center for Art, in Long Island City, New York
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How the director of The Grandmaster captures the essence of the fight
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A poison-gas attack in Syria, a verdict in the Manning trial, and wing-walker Flame Brewer
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"Relationship #5," a photograph by Nikolay Bakharev, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our September 2013 issue. On view in July at Julie Saul Gallery in New York City, and at the Venice Biennale, Bakharev's beach photography portrayed his subjects' bodies more revealingly than was usually allowed in Soviet Russia. © The artist/ Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York City
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