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Realty Bites

by D.W. Gibson,

From a conversation with Raul, a resident of Manhattan, included in The Edge Becomes the Center, an oral history of gentrification in New York City, by D. W. Gibson, out…

Under Western Eyes

by John Gray,

By John Gray, adapted from an article in the October 2014 issue of Prospect. Gray is the author of many books, including False Dawn, Straw Dogs, and The Silence of…

The Problem of Influenza

by George W. Gray,

Influenza does not rate with the public as a terrifying disease. One might start a panic any time by shouting “smallpox!” or “yellow fever!” in a crowd, but can you…

The Body Politic

by Emily Witt,

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse

Poison Apples

by Rebecca Solnit,

Thirty years ago, Apple Computer launched a new product with a messianic commercial in which legions of blank-faced, coverall-clad workers march, as if in a trance, through a strange industrial…

By Night In Chile

by Lola Arias,

By Lola Arias, from her play The Year I Was Born, recently produced at the Under the Radar Festival, in New York. During the performance, eleven Chilean actors presented autobiographical…

Carbon Footprint

by John R. MacArthur, Robert A. Caro,

From a conversation between Robert Caro and John R. MacArthur, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The Power Broker, Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, which won the Pulitzer…

Untitled

by Edu Bayer,

Guns and Poses

by Sarah A. Topol,

Smuggling and subterfuge in the North African desert

High Concept

by Hans Ulrich Obrist,

From Ways of Curating, by Hans Ulrich Obrist, out this month from Faber and Faber. Obrist is the codirector of exhibitions and programs and of international projects at the Serpentine…

How the Islamic State Was Won

by James Harkin,

Interviews with fighters, enemies, and potential recruits