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Nice Work

Scarcely four years have passed since workers at the Vega plant in Lordstown, Ohio, went out on strike, not for more money or shorter hours, but to protest the pressure…

Giving Up the Ghost

by Leslie Jamison,

The eternal allure of life after death

The War of the World

by Rebecca Solnit,

On a single day in July of 1943, more than 500 Allied planes bombed Rome, killing 1,500 people. The city got off lightly compared with Naples, which was attacked 200…

Cowburnt

by Edward Abbey,

Most of the public lands in the West, and especially in the Southwest, are what you might call “cowburnt.” Almost anywhere and everywhere you go in the American West you…

Honky, Napoleon, and the Empress Wu

by Lynn Freed,

Memories of a South African childhood

New Art

by Terry Castle,

Dear Miss Maier (for who would dare address you as Vivian, let alone Viv?), Inevitable that I should get crushed out on you, I guess. You seem to be…

Manual of Trickery and Self-Deception

From a recently declassified article, written by an author whose name was redacted, published in the winter 1986 issue of Studies in Intelligence, the in-house journal of the CIA.

The Body Politic

by Emily Witt,

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse

Game On

by Andrew Cockburn,

East vs. West, again

Keeping Time

by Sarah Manguso,

By Sarah Manguso, from Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, out in March from Graywolf Press. Manguso is the author of several books, including The Guardians and The Two Kinds…

By Night In Chile

by Lola Arias,

By Lola Arias, from her play The Year I Was Born, recently produced at the Under the Radar Festival, in New York. During the performance, eleven Chilean actors presented autobiographical…

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