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Pakistan in Miniatures
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Can the artists of Lahore keep violence at bay?

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Realty Bites
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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…

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Wild Pigeon
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Brussels Spleen
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From an outline for a book Charles Baudelaire planned to write on Belgium, where he lived from 1864 until shortly before his death, in 1867. The outline is published in…

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Good Pilgrims
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Why Mexican immigrants are moving back home

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Vulgar Materialism
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From an online petition submitted in April to Piero Fassino, the mayor of Turin, requesting that he persuade the Spanish multinational NH Hotels not to name its new four-star location…

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In the Cage
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By Colin Richmond, from “Deliberation and Precipitation: Fresh Eggs, c. 1890–c. 1910,” published in the Winter 2014 issue of Common Knowledge. Richmond is professor emeritus of medieval history at the…

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Portrait of a Township
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Former militants take on the post-apartheid struggle

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The Lost Yearling
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An American classic fades away

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You Rang?
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Mastering the art of serving the rich

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Chicago Is the Future
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It was in 1988 that I moved to the bedraggled neighborhood of Hyde Park in order to study American history at the University of Chicago. I left the city ten…

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