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21st century

Naked Ambition

From a contract prepared by a casting agency for extras in the television show Westworld, which is scheduled to air on HBO next year.

By László Krasznahorkai, from Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens, a travel memoir that will be published next month by Seagull Books. Krasznahorkai won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.…

Blast from the Past

by Nat Segnit,

The Battle of Waterloo turns 200

The Counterparty

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Can Bosnia escape the stranglehold of ethnic politics?

Hour of the Horse

by Charlotte Dumas,

Motes from Underground

by Peter Andrey Smith,

Will cave soil save us from drug-resistant superbugs?

Slender Mercies

by Rick Moody,

The gospel according to Extreme Weight Loss

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

A jaguar named Salman was sent away from the Delhi zoo for being too fat to mate, and a former meerkat expert at the London Zoo was ordered to pay…

Thanks, Obama

by Harper’s Magazine,

From entries made since 2009 to the U.S. Protocol Gift Unit Federal Register Report, which records items given by foreign dignitaries to federal employees.

How the Islamic State Was Won

by James Harkin,

The Islamic State's influence grows; James Harkin interviews its fighters, enemies, and potential recruits

The Body Politic

by Emily Witt,

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse.

21st century

Naked Ambition

Road to Nowhere

Blast from the Past

The Counterparty

Hour of the Horse

Motes from Underground

Slender Mercies

Findings

Thanks, Obama

How the Islamic State Was Won

The Body Politic

Debug

21st century

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Naked Ambition

Road to Nowhere

Blast from the Past

The Counterparty

Hour of the Horse

Motes from Underground

Slender Mercies

Findings

Thanks, Obama

How the Islamic State Was Won

The Body Politic

Debug