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Body of Crisp

From comments published online and in media outlets upon the release of a TV commercial for the Italian company Amica Chips. The commercial depicts nuns eating potato chips in a…

A Divine Pat

by John Cleese,

From Professor at Large, which was published last month by Cornell University Press. It must have seemed some kind of risk to request a sermon from a man once so…

Pakistan in Miniatures

by Sage Mehta,

Can the artists of Lahore keep violence at bay?

Notes From Underground

Translated by Alan Yuhas,

From a May 23 expert-witness statement submitted as evidence in the trial of three members of the Russian activist collective Pussy Riot, who were sentenced in August to two years…