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From an interview with Richard Rodriguez published in the Spring 2014 issue of Boom: A Journal of California. Rodriguez is the author, most recently, of Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, excerpted…

Vulgar Materialism

Translated by Anthony Lydgate,

From an online petition submitted in April to Piero Fassino, the mayor of Turin, requesting that he persuade the Spanish multinational NH Hotels not to name its new four-star location…

Diss Placed

by Andrew M. Guest,

From insults exchanged by children living in refugee camps near Luanda, Angola, between 2002 and 2003. “ ‘You Traded Your Mother for an Unripe Mango’: Playing with Insults in an…

The Man Who Stole the Nile

by Frederick Kaufman,

An Ethiopian billionaire’s outrageous land grab

21st Century Limited

by Kevin Baker,

The lost glory of America’s railroads

Borderlands

by Kirsten Luce,

Photographs from Hidalgo County

Four new carnivorous sponges, fourteen new dancing frogs, twenty-four new caterpillar-mummifying wasps, and one new nickel-hyperaccumulator plant were described. Three subspecies of yellow-shouldered bat were elevated to species. Hawfinches (Coccothraustes…

Northern Exposure

by Masha Gessen,

Protest, petroleum, and Putin’s dream of a Russian Arctic

Emma (detail)

by Chuck Close,

21st century

Silicon Ally

“Eclipse #2” and “Eclipse #1”

Vulgar Materialism

Diss Placed

Tabatioca

The Man Who Stole the Nile

21st Century Limited

Borderlands

Findings

Northern Exposure

Emma (detail)

Debug

21st century

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Silicon Ally

“Eclipse #2” and “Eclipse #1”

Vulgar Materialism

Diss Placed

Tabatioca

The Man Who Stole the Nile

21st Century Limited

Borderlands

Findings

Northern Exposure

Emma (detail)

June 2014

Debug