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On Not Being Well Read

by John Crowley,

I loved reading before I could read. I have a distinct memory — yes, our memories are subject to lapses and improvisations, but this one has been around so long I…

The Spy Who Fired Me

by Esther Kaplan,

The human costs of workplace monitoring

A Grand Juror Speaks

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus,

The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way

Giving Up the Ghost

by Leslie Jamison,

The eternal allure of life after death

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Researchers who spent sixteen months observing an Illinois cardinal who is half white and half red, and correspondingly half female and half male, announced that the bird does not mate…

Zuma #9

by John Divola,

Holy Hearts, India, 2013

by Phyllis Galembo,

Burning News

by Tim Parchikov,

Invisible and Insidious

by William T. Vollmann,

Living at the edge of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster

The Melancholy of Anatomy

by Wendell Berry,

By Wendell Berry, from Our Only World, out this month from Counterpoint. Berry’s essay “Faustian Economics” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

Shirking 9 to 5

From a list of reasons given for missing work, collected by CareerBuilder in a survey completed by 2,303 hiring managers and human-resources professionals.