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All Abroad
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From Le Dépays, which was published in May by Film Desk Books. You’re returning from Hong Kong, oyster of the hundred thousand pearls, and from the very first train (the…

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Life After Trump
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Reality after trump Tabloids after trump Movies after trump Relationships after trump Manners after trump Imagination after trump Gold after trump Conversation after trump Punctuation after trump Apologies after trump…

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Edible Complex
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From a new translation of Herodotus’ The Histories, by Tom Holland, out this month from Viking.

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Greetings
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By Jon Cotner, from issue 5 of Gigantic magazine. Cotner is an artist and poet who teaches at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn. The following lines are spoken by participants in…

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Polite Brigade
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From A Brochure for Comprehending the Cultures of the Coalition Forces, a twenty-eight-page pamphlet published by the Afghan Ministry of Defense and distributed to Afghan troops. Translated from the Dari…

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Operation Dessert Storm

From source material quoted by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, an eleventh-century scholar, in his humorous survey of Islamic scholarship concerning uninvited guests. Selections from the Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq, abridged and translated…

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The sacred and the profane
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Why I eat with a fork
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From truth to probability
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A puzzle for tailors
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On some difficulties of telling the truth
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