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Social conditions

Road to Nowhere

By László Krasznahorkai, from Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens, a travel memoir that will be published next month by Seagull Books. Krasznahorkai won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.…

The Counterparty

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Can Bosnia escape the stranglehold of ethnic politics?

Getting to the End

by J. C. Hallman,

Gambling and suicide in Atlantic City

The Body Politic

by Emily Witt,

The battle over Pablo Neruda’s corpse.

There’s the Rub

by Brian Blanchfield,

By Brian Blanchfield, from Proxies, an essay collection that will be published in April by Nightboat Books. Blanchfield is the author, most recently, of A Several World, a volume of…