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Exit Interview

From The Very Last Interview, a collection of questions loosely adapted from interviews with the writer David Shields, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. Any…

Tanked

From a text-message exchange between a person in Charleston and the operator of the South Carolina Aquarium’s educational hotline. inquirer: I’m currently at the corner of Market and Meeting. What…

Search History

by Harper’s Magazine,

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

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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.

The Mother of All Questions

by Rebecca Solnit,

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of people was…

From questions asked on November 2 by Supreme Court justices in oral arguments, in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association. The case concerns a 2005 California law that prohibits the sale…

Potus blossom

Translated by Colin Jones,

Dial M for mullah

Translated by Tamer Elzein,

Whoppers

by Harper’s Staff,

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Exit Interview

Tanked

Search History

Search History

The Mother of All Questions

Youth and reconciliation

A raven or a writing desk?

Interactivist Judges

Potus blossom

Dial M for mullah

Whoppers

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Exit Interview

Tanked

Search History

Search History

The Mother of All Questions

Youth and reconciliation

A raven or a writing desk?

Interactivist Judges

Potus blossom

Dial M for mullah

Whoppers

December 2007

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