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The Day of the Knotweed
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Battling Britain’s most destructive invasive plant

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Beat Reporter
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From a previously unpublished journal entry by Allen Ginsberg, dated February 18–19, 1965, and collected in The Essential Ginsberg, which will be published next month by Harper Perennial. In 1965, Ginsberg accepted…

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In the Pain Cavern
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By Maggie Nelson, from The Argonauts, out next month from Graywolf. Nelson is the author of several books, including Bluets, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, and Jane: A Murder.

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Life After Guantánamo
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A father and son’s story

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Giving Up the Ghost
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The eternal allure of life after death

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Honky, Napoleon, and the Empress Wu
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Memories of a South African childhood

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The Body Politic
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The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse

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Her Struggle
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The reticence of Penelope Fitzgerald

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By Night In Chile
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By Lola Arias, from her play The Year I Was Born, recently produced at the Under the Radar Festival, in New York. During the performance, eleven Chilean actors presented autobiographical…

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Carbon Footprint
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From a conversation between Robert Caro and John R. MacArthur, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The Power Broker, Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, which won the Pulitzer…

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Gateway to Freedom
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The origins of the Underground Railroad

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