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The Act of Art

From a March 1961 letter sent by Charles Bukowski to Jon Webb, the editor of The Outsider and an early champion of Bukowski’s work. Bukowski (1920–94) was the author of…

Overhead Comportment

by Winston Choi-Schagrin, Shayla Love,

From newspaper accounts since 2010 of incidents in which airplane passengers were removed or flights were rerouted in response to passenger behavior. Compiled by Shayla Love and Winston Choi-Schagrin.

Bleakness Stakes

by Ryann Liebenthal, Shayla Love,

From summaries of police-brutality cases recently settled by the city of Baltimore. An investigation conducted last year by the Baltimore Sun found that police-misconduct settlements have cost the city nearly…

Fugue State

by Sarah A. Topol,

The struggle for national identity in wartime Ukraine

First Responders

From tweets by companies alluding to current events between 2011 and 2014. @KennethCole Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available…

Displaced in the D.R.

by Rachel Nolan,

A country strips 210,000 of citizenship

Abolish High School

by Rebecca Solnit,

Ididn’t go to high school. This I think of as one of my proudest accomplishments and one of my greatest escapes, because everyone who grows up in the United States…

Beat Reporter

by Allen Ginsberg,

From a previously unpublished journal entry by Allen Ginsberg, dated February 18–19, 1965, and collected in The Essential Ginsberg, which will be published next month by Harper Perennial. In 1965, Ginsberg accepted…

Dire Straights

From questions asked by deputies of the L.A. County Men’s Jail to determine whether an inmate should be placed in a unit created to house and protect gay and transgender…

Life After Guantánamo

by Pardiss Kebriaei,

A father and son’s story

A Grand Juror Speaks

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus,

The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way