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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?

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

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.

"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

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

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

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

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

Last night, Harper's won the National Magazine Award for fiction, for Stephen King's story “Batman and Robin Have an Altercation” (September 2012).

Wait and watch awhile (high) was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Paul Wackers's work will be on view in June at Narwhal gallery in Toronto. Courtesy the artist and A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels

A Bangladeshi building collapses, George W. Bush’s presidential library opens, and koala chlamydia ravages Australia

A recent New York Times Magazine feature recalls Barbara Ehrenreich's November 2001 story, "Welcome to Cancerland"

"Untitled (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in Background)" is now on view as part of At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Eggleston's work was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Photograph © Eggleston Artistic Trust

The similarities between the political response to tragedy and professional wrestling

“Dawn 15” was on view last December at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery in New York City. The artist produced his DAWN series while living five months a year for four years in a hut near the summit of Mount Fuji in Japan. Image courtesy the artist and Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York City

A collage series after John James Audubon’s Birds in America

Harper’s Magazine congratulates Samuel James, winner of the 2012 Olivier Rebbot Award for his photo essay "The Water of My Land"

A manhunt in Massachusetts, the Gitmo hunger strike grows, and the cause of earthquakes in Iran

Does To the Wonder reveal a director lost in his own vision?

A curious sculpture in the Kansas town that Roger Barker made his laboratory

Daniel Brook on the lessons of four great Eastern cities that sought to imitate the West

Where were the voices of conscience on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War?

Willa Cather’s sole surviving letter to Edith Lewis

Going undercover at a slaughterhouse in an age of agribusiness gag laws

A bombing at the Boston Marathon, a gun suicide at an NRA-sponsored event, and Anne Frank’s beliebf

A synopsis of our May 2013 cover feature

Words dropped from recent editions of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

The twenty-first-century Jungle, a U.S. official's dubious lobbying in Afghanistan, and more

A new report from Seton Hall University exposes government surveillance of attorney–client conversations

Don Draper, non-enigma