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Six Questions

The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese

Mike Paterniti on the power of cheese, the pleasures of digression, and the War of the Roses method of book writing

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No Comment

The G.O.P.’s Surveillance Judiciary

Is it possible to simply disband the partisan FISA court?

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Controversy

The West Coast Oyster War

The campaign to shut down a family oyster farm exposes an unflattering side of the American conservation movement

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Postcard

Days of Wine and Rosaries

Wine and Catholicism among the Tibetans of China’s Yunnan Province

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Special Feature

After the Fish Are Gone: A Short Documentary

A film produced in conjunction with "Emptying the World's Aquarium" (Harper's, August 2013)

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Précis

Writers Go in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep

We asked some of our favorite writers how they were sleeping. Their responses ranged from the personal, to the scientific, to the historical.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Detroit files for bankruptcy, prison breaks outside Baghdad, and snail-mucus makeup in France

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No Comment

Back in the G.D.R.

What the United States can learn from the East German surveillance experience

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Heart of Empire

Boeing’s Plastic Planes

How Boeing’s adoption of defense-contracting practices led to the flawed Dreamliner 787

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Conversation

Snoop Snoop Song: A Conversation with Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald on the importance of privacy, the hypocrisy of Democrats, and how he almost lost the NSA leak

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Trayvon Martin’s killer is acquitted, Yasiin Bey is force fed, and Sweden gets disability-themed beer

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Editor's Note

Introducing the August 2013 Issue

How we sleep (or don’t), the decline of North American fisheries, and scent sense

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No Comment

Spotlighting the Surveillance Court

Why has a secret court been permitted to place America at the center of a new global panopticon?

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Sexual assault amid Egyptian upheaval, adult breast-feeding in China, and the empathy of taxidermist George Dante

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Special Feature

Blood Spore: The Pollock Murder Cassette

A 1981 recording of a police officer and a burglar discussing the robbery and murder of a pioneering mycologist

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No Comment

The Real Insider Threat

Will the NSA’s surveillance program threaten the Atlantic Alliance?

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The U.S. Supreme Court gets in on the Voting Rights and Defense of Marriage acts, Egypt threatens revolution, and a harsh Crimean punishment for borscht-dumping

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Art

Not in These Shoes

Not in These Shoes, an enamel painting on aluminum by Marilyn Minter, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our July 2013 issue. An exhibition of her work was on view in May at Regen Projects, in Los Angeles. © The artist / Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Salon 94 Gallery, New York City

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Six Questions

Savage Coast

Rowena Kennedy-Epstein on Muriel Rukeyser’s political and emotional vision

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Ars Philosopha

On Suicide

And why we should talk more about it

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Edward Snowden's travel itinerary, a Christian ministry's ex-ex-gay therapy, and the apocalypse gets a golf course. Read More
Art

Underworld XIII

Underworld XIII, a collage by John Stezaker, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our July 2013 issue. Nude and Landscape, an exhibition of Stezaker’s collages, closed earlier this month at Petzel, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York City

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Perspective

On Bad Mayors and Good Cities

The real problem with Toronto mayor Rob Ford isn't that he's a venal, possibly crack-smoking bully; it's that he's not the kind of venal, possibly crack-smoking bully who makes his city better

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Perspective

On the NSA’s That ’70s Show Rerun

What would Frank Church say about the Snowden Affair?

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The U.S. offers military aid to the Syrian opposition, Turkey clears protesters from Gezi Park, and oculolinctus enthusiast Elektrika Energias speaks

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Précis

McKenzie Funk Searches Iceland for the Man who Tried to Sell Glaciers

“There was no country more in the thrall of commercial banking and paper wealth. . . . All this helped explain why no one in Iceland seemed worried about building an economy on water, not when the last one had been built on air.”

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