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Summertime Sadness
Mental health, Juneteenth, Anne Carson, and the summer solstice
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Inside the July 2025 Issue
Andrew Kay on OCD, Lewis Hyde on deep time, Lydia Davis on the art of observation, Pete McKenzie on Zionism in the South Pacific islands, and more.
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“Snakes increasingly struggle to locate mates.”
A surge of pizza delivery orders was reported around the Pentagon hours before the Israeli government began bombing on Iran.
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Body Politic
Protest movements, New York City mayoral elections, and James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village”
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“Turn the creative knob up to 11.”
At least eight states have introduced legislation to investigate or mitigate chemtrails.
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NYC Event: Celebrate the June anniversary issue at McNally Jackson Seaport
Readings from Harmony Holiday, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jonathon Sturgeon, and more
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One to Remember
Plus: friendship breakups, Edmund White, and 81 years since D-Day
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“Humanity rises and falls as one.”
A man jumped into a pit of ancient terracotta warriors in Xi’an, China.
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May 2025

Mystery in the Digital Age
Plus: Karl Ove Knausgaard on computers, remembering Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Alice Notley, and the CDC
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“Every dog is entitled to one bite.”
In her native Slovenia, a life-size sculpture of the first lady of the United States was sawed off at the ankles and carried away after a previous one…
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A Mark Twain Revival
Plus: the best of 175 years of Harper's, James Pogue on the myth of white genocide, and religion in education
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Inside the June 2025 Issue
John Jeremiah Sullivan on Mark Twain, Karl Ove Knausgaard on finding mystery in the digital age, Harmony Holiday on James Baldwin, fiction from Sidik…
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