“The FBI operative in New Haven who wrote my forensic profile possessed some talent with words and turned his phrases with apparent pleasure.”
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How the junior senator from Kentucky motivated the Obama Administration to forgo mandatory minimum sentences
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The case against Algebra II, the FBI’s file on William T. Vollmann, and our new Washington correspondent
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The author obtains his FBI file and discovers a case largely based on literary criticism
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The Mexican government announces a state of emergency following a mass shrimp die-off in the Sea of Cortez
Read More“We ‘squeeze, and then squeeze some more’ with no end in sight.”
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“We are cautious,” said General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, “about every drop of Egyptian blood.”
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“Life’s prerequisites are courtesy and kindness, the times tables, fractions, percentages, ratios, reading, writing, some history — the rest is gravy, really.”
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Food cart, Cairo, November 2011, a painting by Rebecca Bird, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our September 2013 issue. Bird's work will be on view next year at Kopeikin Gallery, in Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist
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Dubious sources feed national-security reporter Eli Lake a fraudulent story for political purposes — once again
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What can we do to address the collapsing global fishery?
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"Storm Over Field, Lake Pointsett, South Dakota, 2010," a photograph by Mitch Dobrowner, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our August 2013 issue. Dobrowner's new monograph Storms will be published next month by Aperture. Courtesy the artist and Aperture, New York City
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The U.S. government responds to an alleged terrorist plot, Ramadan ends in violence in parts of the Muslim world, and Swedish men guard their testicles from pacu fish
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How will the Obama Administration handle Edward Snowden’s case in the long term?
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“Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature,” by Jakob Rosenzweig (cartography) and Jacqueline Bishop (artwork). This map was produced for Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker. The book will be published on November 4 by the University of California Press. Read Jeffery Gleaves’s interview with Rebecca Solnit here.
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Rebecca Solnit on how personal stories can fail to satisfy, the architectural space of the book, and the pleasures with which the landscapes of our lives are salted
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"Untitled #4 (Flux series)," a photograph by Karine Laval, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our August 2013 issue. An exhibition of Laval's work was on view in May at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York City
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Zimbabwe re-elects Robert Mugabe, a fatwa against croissants, and a lemonade-stand robbery at BB-gunpoint
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"0232," a photograph from Linda Fregni Nagler's series The Hidden Mother, which was featured in the Readings section of our August 2013 issue. All 997 daguerreotypes, tintypes, and albumen prints that comprise the series are currently on view in an exhibition curated by Cindy Sherman inside Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) at the Venice Biennale. Because of the long exposure times required by early photography, children posing for portraits were often held still by adults hidden under blankets. Courtesy the artist and Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan/Zuoz, Switzerland
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Ben Stroud on getting to know a character, the balance between research and imagination, and the writer’s desire for recognition
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Please join us at McNally Jackson Books on Wednesday, July 31, at 7 p.m. for Sleeping With Harper’s Magazine: Authors in search of a good night’s rest.
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How one community on the Sea of Cortez restored its fishery — and its economy — by stopping fishing altogether
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Alexander Maksik on Charles Taylor’s Liberia, the oldest story in the world, and the trouble with elegant variation
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How the mass killing of Islamists is being justified in America
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Egypt teeters precariously, cat zombies and zonkeys live, and a hexapus dies
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