By Masha Gessen, from The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, out last month from Riverhead Books. Gessen is the author of several books, including The Man Without a…

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The eternal allure of life after death

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From comments appended to a post made last November on OathKeepers.org, a “non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders.” The post sought volunteers to guard…

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The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse

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Smuggling and subterfuge in the North African desert

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By Emmanuel Carrère, from Limonov, to be published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Carrère’s books include The Adversary, My Life as a Russian Novel, and Lives Other Than…

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Investigating a Turkish protester’s death

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

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