Letters 2
Breaking the News Harry Hamilton, Evan Warfel
Easy Chair 5
Losing My Religion Kevin Baker
Harper’s Index 9
Readings 11
Ring of Fire Jordan Kisner
Koftaesque sauced at sea with Saddam Hussein
At the Mind’s Limits a Uighur woman’s waking nightmare
A Walk to Remember Fenton Johnson
Troys and Girls Anne Carson
Nighthawks at the Dunkin’ Jeff Sharlet
Spellbound Fernanda Melchor
Electric Emily Skillings
And ... Arghavan Khosravi, Giovanni Ozzola, Tatiana Trouvé,
and whales get hooked on junk food
Essay 25
THE OLD NORMAL Andrew J. Bacevich
Why we can’t beat our addiction to war
From the Archive 35
The Most Hated Nation John Dos Passos
Annotation 36
OUT OF AFRICA Oscar Schwartz
The legacy of colonialism threatens
the future of genetic research
Letter from Saluda 39
WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Lauren Groff
Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction
Letter from Ecatepec 53
IN HARM’S WAY Seth Harp
A plague of unsolved femicides haunts Mexico
Story 67
THE FIFTH STEP Stephen King
Reviews 73
NEW BOOKS Lidija Haas
FUN WITH PROBLEMS Charles Baxter
The life of Robert Stone
A VIEW TO A KRILL Lucy Jakub
The first history of the most remote ocean
Puzzle 87 Richard E. Maltby Jr.
Findings 88
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