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The Shapes of Stones

by Niya Shahdad,

The careful act of paying respects to kin while under curfew in Kashmir

The Bodies in The Forest

by Masha Gessen,

By Masha Gessen, from Never Remember: Searching for Stalin’s Gulags in Putin’s Russia, which will be published next month by Columbia Global Reports. Gessen’s book The Future Is History won…

Silent Majority

by John Berger,

From Portraits, by John Berger, which was published last month by Verso. A contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, Berger is the author of numerous books, including Ways of Seeing (1972).

“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”

by Benjamin Busch,

A Marine returns to a divided Iraq

Marxist Economics

From a complaint filed September 7, 2012, by Stephanie Kirschner and Brad J. Kane against the owners and operators of Eden Memorial Park, a cemetery in Mission Hills, California. In…