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Social aspects

Numerical Madness

Critiques of a life online

Beyond the Book

By Mark Kingwell, from a keynote speech delivered in May at the annual meeting of the Writers’ Union of Canada and published in the Ottawa Citizen. Kingwell is a professor…

Neighbors

by Deb Olin Unferth,

Maximilian in the basement watched TV every night. I lay on a mattress on the floor in the apartment above him. He’d turn on the news around ten, fall asleep,…

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…

A Brief Period of Rejoicing

by Geoff Dyer,

Never mind the European meltdown, here’s the Olympics!

Stink different

by Nate Hill,

The Scientists

by Marco Roth,

From a memoir published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Roth is an editor at n+1. Secrecy came easily, at first. It felt like the natural condition of adolescence,…

Jurists’ prudence

by Melvin Schweitzer,

Ignorance of Things Past

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Who wins and who loses when we forget American history

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Art by Steven Noble,

Electric ladyland

by Craig Taylor,

Social aspects

Numerical Madness

Beyond the Book

Neighbors

Polite Brigade

A Brief Period of Rejoicing

Stink different

The Scientists

Jurists’ prudence

Ignorance of Things Past

Untitled

Electric ladyland

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Social aspects

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Numerical Madness

Beyond the Book

Neighbors

Polite Brigade

A Brief Period of Rejoicing

Stink different

The Scientists

Jurists’ prudence

Ignorance of Things Past

Untitled

Electric ladyland

April 2012

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