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The ghost of Shakespeare

by Harper’s Staff,

A son in shadow

by Fred D’Aguiar,

Remembering, in fragments, a lost parent

Enter the chicken

by Burkhard Bilger,

On the bayou, cockfighting remains undefeated

On Broadway

by Arthur Miller,

Notes on the past and future of American theater

An action figure for all seasons

by Dennis Cass,

Minnesota elects a toy governor

Going to the dogs

by David Samuels,

Small bets at long odds on thin greyhounds

Insomnia: six poems

by Jorge Luis Borges,

The pilot’s tale

by Matthew Klam,

At sea with 90,000 tons of diplomacy

Album

Art by Janet Bloch,

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by Andrea Robbins, Max Becher,

But is it advertising? Capitalist realism at the Clio Awards

by Jonathan Dee,

Scribble, scribble, scribble

by Nicholas Delbanco,

The literary impulse, its despair and delight

Nickel-and-Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich,

On (not) getting by in America

The world upside down

by Sabina Spaldi,

Sailing out of Panama

by Patrick Symmes,

The American empire discards an obsolete canal

Still life

by Mary Gordon,

Notes on Pierre Bonnard and my mother's ninetieth birthday

Up in smoke

by Ted C. Fishman,

The suckers bring the money; Wall Street supplies the matches

Naked states

by Spencer Tunick,

Home after dark

by Jayne Anne Phillips,

A funeral for three girls in Kentucky

The Radioactive Boy Scout

by Ken Silverstein,

When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor

Foundering father

by Alexander Hamilton,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

A 1797 confession of adultery

Let them eat nutri-cake

by Sheldon Rampton,

Merriam-Webster thinks our "biosolids" don't stink

Goodbye to all that

by Christopher Hitchens,

Why Americans are not taught history

Freedom fighters

by Don Wallace,

When the Prague Spring came to a California high school

Coming home

by John Hildebrand,

Hunting squirrels and tigers with the Hmong

Bulldozer diplomacy

by Malu Halasa,

Israel plays politics with Palestinian development

Planet of weeds

by David Quammen,

Tallying the losses of Earth's animals and plants

The soul encoded

Software that thinks it knows you

The hum of bees

by Susan Brind Morrow,

A civilization made of flowers, light, and wax

Beyond Belief

by Fenton Johnson,

A skeptic searches for an American faith

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