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Everything That Rises

by John Crowley,

I have come to perceive a cosmos filled with superintelligent beings — a virtually infinite number of them, whose minds have transcended their earthbound bodies and are independent of any…

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From queries submitted by telephone and in person to the New York Public Library’s Reference and Research Services between 1940 and 1989.

A Special Relationship

by Andrew Cockburn,

The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

The Charmer

by Fredrik deBoer,

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

by Art Spiegelman,

A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at — right now!

Seminal Theories

by Christopher Oldstone-Moore,

From Of Beards and Men, by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, which will be published next month by the University of Chicago Press. Oldstone-Moore is a senior lecturer in history at Wright State…

Blast from the Past

by Nat Segnit,

The Battle of Waterloo turns 200

The Counterparty

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Can Bosnia escape the stranglehold of ethnic politics?

How the Islamic State Was Won

by James Harkin,

The Islamic State's influence grows; James Harkin interviews its fighters, enemies, and potential recruits

The Body Politic

by Emily Witt,

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse.

Birds on the Wane

by E. B. Leonard,

Before the invention of the electric telegraph enabled man to outrival the boast of Shakespeare’s Puck that he would “put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes,” the…