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Take the Medicine to the White Man

by Sierra Crane Murdoch,

A “Native American Church” without Native Americans

Lions and Daughters

by Nancy Lemann,

The underrated art of not getting gored

The Anatomy of Panic

by Michael W. Clune,

A personal history of anxiety

The Age of the Crisis of Work

by Erik Baker,

What is the sound of quiet quitting?

I Really Didn’t Want to Go

by Lauren Oyler,

On the Goop cruise

Numinous Strangers

by Lisa Wells,

The enduring allure of pilgrimage

The Melancholy Universe

by László F. Földényi,Translated by John Batki,

Michael H. Parkinson reappears on the No. 56 streetcar

The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday

by Kyle Paoletta,

How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm

In Search of Lost Time

by Tom Vanderbilt,

The science of the perfect second

A Climate of Fear

by Russell Jacoby,

The free speech skeptics abandon Salman Rushdie

At Random

by Christian Lorentzen,

The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

Frog

by Anne Fadiman,

What happens to the pets that happen to you

Alternative Facts

by Andrew Cockburn,

How the media failed Julian Assange

The European Way to Die

by Michel Houellebecq,Translated by Robyn Creswell,

On euthanasia and assisted suicide

Swamplandia

by Andrew Cockburn,

The money behind Ron DeSantis’s populist façade

No Vacancy

by Wes Enzinna,

Can empty houses help solve homelessness?

Falling Like Leaves

by Ann Neumann,

The war in Ethiopia and its crimes against civilians

White Buffalo

by Christian Wiman,

Keep your mind in hell, and despair not

Truth Takes a Vacation

by Mark Edmundson,

Trumpism and the American philosophical tradition

Last Mile

by Justin Beal,

The art of urine in the age of fulfillment

Boomtown

by Hillary Angelo,

A solar land rush in the West

Apocalypse Nowish

by Michael Robbins,

The sense of an ending

Book of the Living

by Marina Magloire,

The house museums of New Orleans

Corner Club Cathedral Cocoon

by Sasha Frere-Jones,

Audiophilia and its discontents

Over the Horizon

by Caitlin L. Chandler,

The next frontier in the war on terror

Halensee

by Ryan Ruby,

A father’s guide to Nabokov’s Berlin

In the Running

by Sarah Smarsh,

The trials of an almost candidate

Some Like It Hot

by Sophie Lewis,

Notes from the Marilyn Appreciation Society

Party Walls

by Andrew Cockburn,

Walter Karp’s enduring view of the establishment

The Right to Not Be Pregnant

by Charlotte Shane,

Asserting an essential freedom

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Take the Medicine to the White Man

Lions and Daughters

The Anatomy of Panic

The Age of the Crisis of Work

I Really Didn’t Want to Go

Numinous Strangers

The Melancholy Universe

The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday

In Search of Lost Time

A Climate of Fear

At Random

Frog

Alternative Facts

The European Way to Die

Swamplandia

No Vacancy

Falling Like Leaves

White Buffalo

Truth Takes a Vacation

Last Mile

Boomtown

Apocalypse Nowish

Book of the Living

Corner Club Cathedral Cocoon

Over the Horizon

Halensee

In the Running

Some Like It Hot

Party Walls

The Right to Not Be Pregnant

June 2023

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