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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Is it possible to simply disband the partisan FISA court?
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The campaign to shut down a family oyster farm exposes an unflattering side of the American conservation movement
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Wine and Catholicism among the Tibetans of China’s Yunnan Province
Read MoreA film produced in conjunction with "Emptying the World's Aquarium" (Harper's, August 2013)
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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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Detroit files for bankruptcy, prison breaks outside Baghdad, and snail-mucus makeup in France
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What the United States can learn from the East German surveillance experience
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How Boeing’s adoption of defense-contracting practices led to the flawed Dreamliner 787
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Glenn Greenwald on the importance of privacy, the hypocrisy of Democrats, and how he almost lost the NSA leak
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Trayvon Martin’s killer is acquitted, Yasiin Bey is force fed, and Sweden gets disability-themed beer
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How we sleep (or don’t), the decline of North American fisheries, and scent sense
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Why has a secret court been permitted to place America at the center of a new global panopticon?
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Sexual assault amid Egyptian upheaval, adult breast-feeding in China, and the empathy of taxidermist George Dante
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A 1981 recording of a police officer and a burglar discussing the robbery and murder of a pioneering mycologist
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Will the NSA’s surveillance program threaten the Atlantic Alliance?
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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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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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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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Rebecca Makkai on reconciling family history in writing
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The author writes about the inspiration for “May I Touch Your Hair?” (July 2013)
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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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“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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