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By Liao Yiwu, from For a Song and a Hundred Songs, out next month from New Harvest. Liao, who was born in China in 1958, spent four years in prison…

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Life During Wartime
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Remembering the siege of Sarajevo

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Blinded by the Right?
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How hippie Christians begat evangelical conservatives

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Southern Discomfort
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From the unpublished diaries of LeRoy Wiley Gresham (1847–65), son of John J. Gresham, twice mayor of Macon, Georgia. LeRoy, a longtime invalid confined to his bed or to a…

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Witness Projection
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How Ushahidi is mapping crises around the world

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How Timbuktu Saved Its Books
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Behind the rescue of Mali’s historic manuscripts

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Revised History
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Last month, Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, the documentary series the director made with historian Peter Kuznick, completed its ten-episode run on Showtime. Those who unthinkingly dismiss…

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Smuggler Nation
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By Peter Andreas, from his book out this month from Oxford University Press. Andreas is a professor of political science at Brown University. The agents moved in to seize the…

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Heirs Apparent
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From A History of Future Cities, by Daniel Brook, to be published next month by W. W. Norton. Brook’s article “New Hampshire Goddam” appeared in the November 2012 issue of…

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Sentimental Medicine
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Why we still fear vaccines

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