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Social aspects

Same-as-that

by Dale Peck,

From a speech given in December 2011, at the New School, in New York City. Dale Peck is a novelist and critic. The first time I heard the word samizdat…

All Politics Is Local

by Daniel Alarcón,

Election night in Peru’s largest prison

Semper infidelis

by Thomas Frank,

Deep in the Bowl

by Darryl Pinckney,

Memory of a shrinking city

What knot to wear

Translated by Anthony Lydgate,

The language of work

by Mark Kingwell,

Into the Unforeseen

by Rivka Galchen,

A romance of César Aira

Blank Generation

by Zeynep Arsel, Craig J. Thompson,

The confessions of Glenn Beck

by Thomas Frank,

Don’t mention the war

by Harper’s Staff,

Holding Harlem

by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts,