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Eating the Whale

by Wyatt Williams,

A personal history of meat

When the Raids Came

by Andrew Quilty,

The war’s toll on one Afghan family

Men in Dark Times

by Rebecca Panovka,

How Hannah Arendt’s fans misread the post-truth presidency

The Undiscovered Country

by Will Stephenson,

Can suicide be predicted?

The Enemy Within

by Andrew Cockburn,

Why the Democrats don’t need Joe Manchin

Home Country

by Héctor Tobar,

What does it mean to be Latino?

History As End

by Matthew Karp,

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

A Complicating Energy

by Elisa Gabbert,

Notes on a year without strangers

Hard Bargain

by Daniel Brook,

How Amazon turned a generation against labor

Getting On With It

by Tess Taylor,

Art as civic repair

Stages of Grief

by William Deresiewicz,

What the pandemic has done to the arts

When Children Die

by Perri Klass,

Tragedies in the margins of history

Prayer for a Just War

by Greg Jackson,

Finding meaning in the climate fight

The Anxiety of Influencers

by Barrett Swanson,

Educating the TikTok generation

Birds of a Feather

by Zach St. George,

What exactly does the Endangered Species Act protect?

Sign of the Times

by James Harkin,

Caliphate and the perils of reporting online

The Silent Type

by Sam Sussman,

On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son

Devils in the Deep

by Jill Bialosky,

On suicide and Moby-Dick

Narco in Chief

by Andrew Cockburn,

How America enables corruption in Honduras

The Lightning Farm

by Caroline Lester,

The death penalty under Trump and the execution of Dustin Higgs

The Business of Scenery

by Christopher Ketcham,

Why America’s national parks need new management

Lost in Thought

by David Kortava,

The psychological risks of meditation

The Crow Whisperer

by Lauren Markham,

What happens when we talk to animals?

Civil Warning

by Elliot Ackerman,

Are we living through another antebellum era?

Two Germanys

by Sigrid MacRae,

The East, the West, and the meaning of home

Town of C

by Richard Rothman, Lyle Rexer,

Richard Rothman has gone looking for that obvious yet elusive thing: the American character. Like generations of photographers before him, Rothman is interested in how that character has been shaped…

In the Net

by Trudy Lieberman,

For years, Michael Ransford had known he would need surgery for his umbilical hernia. “People said if it ruptured, it could kill me,” the sixty-year-old farmer told me. The pain…

Il Maestro

by Martin Scorsese,

Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema

Hard Times

by Andrew Cockburn,

Will America recover under Biden?

Stowaways

by Rowan Moore Gerety,

Madagascar reckons with an invasive crayfish

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Eating the Whale

When the Raids Came

Men in Dark Times

The Undiscovered Country

The Enemy Within

Home Country

History As End

A Complicating Energy

Hard Bargain

Getting On With It

Stages of Grief

When Children Die

Prayer for a Just War

The Anxiety of Influencers

Birds of a Feather

Sign of the Times

The Silent Type

Devils in the Deep

Narco in Chief

The Lightning Farm

The Business of Scenery

Lost in Thought

The Crow Whisperer

Civil Warning

Two Germanys

Town of C

In the Net

Il Maestro

Hard Times

Stowaways

September 2021

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