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The Visit

The Visit, by Kim Dorland, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our June 2013 issue. Ghosts of You and Me, an exhibition of Dorland's paintings, is on view through June 8 at Mike Weiss Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Mike Weiss Gallery, New York City

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Big Barack is watching, Turkish winter is coming, and Sunday Swett is winning

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Cinco Estrelas Encampment, Mato Grosso, Brazil

The Cinco Estrelas encampment in northern Mato Grosso, where residents are fighting to gain access to land granted them by the Brazilian government. Photograph © Nadia Shira Cohen, whose work from Mato Grosso accompanied "Promised Land," by Glenn Cheney, in our June 2013 issue.

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Annotations on an Exterior Shot of the Overlook Hotel

Timberline Lodge, a building on the south side of Oregon’s Mount Hood that served as the exterior for the Overlook Hotel, annotated with Stanley Kubrick’s instructions to the crew of The Shining. © The Stanley Kubrick Estate. Courtesy TASCHEN/The Stanley Kubrick Archives

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Heart of Empire

Flight of the Discords

The military–industrial–congressional complex bullies the F-35 Lightning II into Burlington

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Tension in Turkey, storm-chasing tragedy in Oklahoma, and auf Wiedersehen to Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

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Former Louisiana Leper Home, Carville, La.

A tree on the grounds of the Gillis W. Long National Guard facility, formerly the Louisiana Leper Home, in Carville, Louisiana. Wet-plate collodion photograph © Lisa Elmaleh, from a series that accompanied "The Separating Sickness," by Rebecca Solnit, in the June 2013 issue.

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Painting Transport, Shenzhen

Men carry a painting in Shenzhen's Dafen neighborhood. Dafen's artists produce original works as well as millions of inexpensive reproductions, which are sold to hotels around the world. Photograph © Tomas van Houtryve/VII, whose work from Shenzhen accompanied "Instant City," by Nicolai Ouroussoff, in the June 2013 issue.

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Harper's Finest

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi’s “Byzantium” (2012)

Celebrate (or lament) the 460th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks by reading a brief history of the end of time according to the differing accounts of various parties.

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Grand Central: Inside/Outside

Grand Central: Inside/Outside, a mixed-media work on paper by Olive Ayhens, was featured in the Readings section of our June issue. It was selected by New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority as part of its Arts for Transit and Urban Design program, and will be on view as a poster in subways and train stations throughout the city.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Obama calls for an end to the “war on terror,” tensions grow in Europe, and a Filipino with forty-one names

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Six Questions

The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village

Anna Badkhen on life in rural Afghanistan and the friction between violence and beauty

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Browsings

Surprisingly Germane

Tracing the Holocaust-Symbol Theory of The Shining

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Harper's Finest

Wil S. Hylton’s “Broken Heartland” (2012)

The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Government power-drunkenness, space oddities, and anti-lesbian prejudice on the Isle of Man

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Précis

Dan Baum Argues That Efforts to Ban the AR-15 are Hopeless

“The smart question is not ‘How we can ban more guns?’ but ‘How can we live more safely among the millions of guns already floating around?’ ”

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Harper's Finest

Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”

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Editor's Note

Introducing the June Issue of Harper’s Magazine

Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay, the conspiracy theories of Room 237, and more

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Publisher’s Note

In Boston, An Exercise in Intimidation

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, why did so few people protest the decision to lock down parts of the city?

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, the IRS and DOJ overstep their bounds, and the Pope comes out against spinsters

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Official Business

Lydia Davis at the Frieze Art Fair

New York–area readers, please join Readings editor Emily Stokes and author Lydia Davis on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Frieze New York art fair on Randall's Island.

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Vermilion Flycatcher, Arizona, May 1941

"Vermilion Flycatcher, Arizona, May 1941." Eliot Porter's work will be on view through July as part of Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. © Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

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Six Questions

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

One World Trade Center gets its spire, the Gitmo hunger strike continues, and the OED explores revirginize

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Heart of Empire

Targeting Lincoln

How bank-friendly legislators are gutting the Lincoln Amendment to the Dodd–Frank Act

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Postcard

Washington On Parade

Watching the red carpet at the 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

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