Advice for parents about raising their sons
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A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme, a magic-mushroom murder, and more
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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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Big Barack is watching, Turkish winter is coming, and Sunday Swett is winning
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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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The military–industrial–congressional complex bullies the F-35 Lightning II into Burlington
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Tension in Turkey, storm-chasing tragedy in Oklahoma, and auf Wiedersehen to Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
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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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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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Our congratulations to Lydia Davis, who last week was awarded the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for fiction. Read Davis's "The Old Dictionary" here.
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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, 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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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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Anna Badkhen on life in rural Afghanistan and the friction between violence and beauty
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The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
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Government power-drunkenness, space oddities, and anti-lesbian prejudice on the Isle of Man
Read More“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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“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”
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The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty
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Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay, the conspiracy theories of Room 237, and more
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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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Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, the IRS and DOJ overstep their bounds, and the Pope comes out against spinsters
Read MoreNew 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." 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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Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city
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One World Trade Center gets its spire, the Gitmo hunger strike continues, and the OED explores revirginize
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How bank-friendly legislators are gutting the Lincoln Amendment to the Dodd–Frank Act
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Watching the red carpet at the 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
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