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Artful Dodger

From a note sent in 1917 to the Appeal Tribunal in Middlesex, England, which reviewed requests for exemption from military service during World War I. The note is included in…

The Trees Step Out of the Forest

by Barbara Ehrenreich,

By Barbara Ehrenreich, from Living with a Wild God, out next month from Twelve. Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to Harper’s Magazine, is the author of many books, including, most recently,…

Nothing Left

by Adolph Reed Jr.,

The long, slow surrender of American liberals

By Carol Ruth Silver, from a July 3, 1961, entry in a secret journal of her experiences at the maximum-security Mississippi State Penitentiary, in Parchman. One month earlier, the twenty-two-year-old…

On Nudity

by Norman Rush,

By Norman Rush, from Granta 126, published earlier this year. Rush is the author of several works of fiction, including, most recently, Subtle Bodies. From an early age, I was…

Mostpeople’s Poet

by Ruth Franklin,

Is E. E. Cummings a serious writer?

Delhi Cuts

From a list of edits made by the Central Board of Film Certification, a statutory censorship body tasked with regulating publicly screened films in India, taken from the CBFC’s website.…

This Will Be the Last

by Monique Mabelly,Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

By Monique Mabelly, from an account of the September 9, 1977, execution by guillotine, at Marseille’s Baumettes prison, of Tunisian prisoner Hamida Djandoubi, published in Le Monde last October. Mabelly,…

The Pious Spy

by Mujib Mashal,

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection

A Model Married Man

by George Frost Kennan,

From a 1933 diary entry by George Kennan (1904–2005), with the heading “January, Riga.” Kennan was working for the State Department at the time, in a diplomatic post in Latvia.…

Janes Bond

From “Divine Secrets of the RYBAT Sisterhood: Four Senior Women of the Directorate of Operations Discuss Their Careers,” the transcript of a recently declassified 2004 conversation among five high-ranking female…

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20th century

Artful Dodger

The Trees Step Out of the Forest

Nothing Left

Oedipus in Mississippi

On Nudity

Mostpeople’s Poet

Delhi Cuts

This Will Be the Last

The Pious Spy

A Model Married Man

Janes Bond

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Artful Dodger

The Trees Step Out of the Forest

Nothing Left

Oedipus in Mississippi

On Nudity

Mostpeople’s Poet

Delhi Cuts

This Will Be the Last

The Pious Spy

A Model Married Man

Janes Bond

January 2014

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