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Analysis

Theme & Violations

by Éric Chevillard,

By Éric Chevillard, from Music & Literature No. 8. Chevillard is the author of numerous novels, including Prehistoric Times, which appeared in English in 2012. Translated from the French by…

Some Notes on Song

by John Berger,

The rhythms of listening

Hustle and Flow

by Alice Goffman,

By Alice Goffman, from On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, to be published next month by University of Chicago Press. Goffman, a sociologist at the University of…

Pissing contests

by Harper’s Staff,

Foiling the urine police

by Harper’s Staff,

Shreds of evidence

by Cullen Murphy,

Science confronts the miraculous--the shroud of Turin

The mother molecules of life

by George W. (George William) Gray,

Chemistry for every man

by Ellwood Hendrick,

The anatomy of a steel rail

by Henry Cook Boynton,

Pickled herring

by W.W. (William Wymark) Jacobs,

Editor’s drawer

by J.H. Williams,

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