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Elf Governance

From revisions made to the design of the online simulation game Dwarf Fortress since its inception in 2006.

Miracles and Wonders

One woman’s search for a perfect bra

War Games

by Brian Turner,

By Brian Turner, from My Life as a Foreign Country, out next month from W. W. Norton. Turner, a veteran of the Iraq war, is the author of two books…

Gaboxadol

by Hamilton Morris,

In 1755 the naturalist Stepan Krasheninnikov observed the Amanita muscaria mushroom’s effects on Russian soldiers in Siberia ingesting it for the first time. Claiming to have been seized by an…

Ways of not seeing

by Mark Kingwell,

On the limits of design fetishism

Hong Kong Phooey

by Joseph C.K. Yam,

Signs in the supermarket

by Milton Glaser,

A word to the readers

by Lewis H. Lapham,

In the American Grain

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Design

by Harper’s Staff,

Tools for living

by Rhoda Koenig,

Be it ever so homely . . .

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Elf Governance

Miracles and Wonders

War Games

Gaboxadol

Ways of not seeing

Hong Kong Phooey

Signs in the supermarket

A word to the readers

In the American Grain

Design

Tools for living

April 1975

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