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From Speaking in Tongues, by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, which will be published this month by Liveright. j. m. coetzee: I was writing something yesterday, concentrating intensely on getting into words…

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Life After Trump
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Reality after trump Tabloids after trump Movies after trump Relationships after trump Manners after trump Imagination after trump Gold after trump Conversation after trump Punctuation after trump Apologies after trump…

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Agent Provocateur

From an FBI manual suggesting conversational techniques to recruit informants. The document was published by The Intercept in January.

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Withdrawing from reality
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Safe-sex small talk
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Successful mingling
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Against dinner parties
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Nuclear Etiquette
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Polluters of time
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Liking
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