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Red Light Therapy

by Adam Phillips,

By Adam Phillips, from Unforbidden Pleasures, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of more than fifteen books.

Polite Brigade

by Noorullah Dawari,

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…

The poor earnest American

by Thomas Griffith,

Editor’s study

by Henry Mills Alden,

All alike

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