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By Frances Larson, from Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found, forthcoming in November from Liveright.

This Will Be the Last

by Monique Mabelly,Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

By Monique Mabelly, from an account of the September 9, 1977, execution by guillotine, at Marseille’s Baumettes prison, of Tunisian prisoner Hamida Djandoubi, published in Le Monde last October. Mabelly,…

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by Harper’s Staff,

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Art by Marcel Dzama,

The glory of capitalism

Drawn by Clay Butler,

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by Harper’s Staff,

The passing of Florimel

by Anne Cleveland Cheney,

The headsman

by Agnes Repplier,

The bride’s toilette. (The Conciergerie, 1793)

by Ellen Mackay Hutchinson,

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This Will Be the Last

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The glory of capitalism

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The passing of Florimel

The headsman

The bride’s toilette. (The Conciergerie, 1793)

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Severance Package

This Will Be the Last

Languille!

Readings

The glory of capitalism

Readings

The passing of Florimel

The headsman

The bride’s toilette. (The Conciergerie, 1793)

Editor’s drawer

Editor’s easy chair

July 1855

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