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Coming Apart

In early 2015, fire ravaged a three-story building at the corner of 22nd and Mission in San Francisco. The blaze killed Mauricio Orellana, an immigrant from El Salvador, and destroyed…

Eat Me

From translations into English of dishes served at 274 restaurants in Seoul, South Korea. The list was compiled by the Korea Tourism Organization and included in a report that suggests…

Circles of Hell

by Liana Finck,

The Crying Game

by Mark Morris,

By Mark Morris, from an entry in a symposium on crying that was published in the Fall 2016 issue of The Threepenny Review. Morris is a dancer and choreographer. His…

Swat Team

by Thomas Frank,

The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform

Elf Governance

From revisions made to the design of the online simulation game Dwarf Fortress since its inception in 2006.

A Tumor (in English)

by Ed Atkins,

Le Mot Injuste

by Abdelfattah Kilito,

By Abdelfattah Kilito, from The Tongue of Adam, which was published this month by New Directions. Kilito was born in Morocco in 1945. Translated from the French by Robyn Creswell.

Francophony

by Nicoletta Beschin, Angela de Bruin, Sergio Della Sala,

From a paper by Nicoletta Beschin, Angela de Bruin, and Sergio Della Sala that was published in the August 2016 issue of the scientific journal Cortex.

The Real Deal

From trades proposed on Super Anti-Bachaqueo Truekes, a Venezuelan Facebook group that facilitates barters for household goods.

Campaign Sketches

by Steve Mumford,

Drawings from rallies for Donald Trump