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21st century

Findings

The Swedish authors of the Human Protein Atlas designated the testes, in which 999 proteins are more active than they are anywhere else in the body, as having the most…

Love Crimes

by Jennifer Percy,

What liberation looks like for Afghan women

Front Cover

by Angela Strassheim,

Poison Apples

by Rebecca Solnit,

Thirty years ago, Apple Computer launched a new product with a messianic commercial in which legions of blank-faced, coverall-clad workers march, as if in a trance, through a strange industrial…

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…

Fleshdance

by Carolee Schneemann,

By Carolee Schneemann, in response to a letter she received from Mette Ingvartsen, a Danish choreographer, included in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, volume 36, number 1. Schneemann…

Tenure Road

Titles of articles included in the first issue of BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies, published this August.

Vacay-47

From blog posts on Paladin of Jihad offering advice for Western Muslims preparing to migrate (or “make hijra”) to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State.

Untitled

by Edu Bayer,

Guns and Poses

by Sarah A. Topol,

Smuggling and subterfuge in the North African desert

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration