I n the eighth grade I hit a kid named Kevin Flowers so hard in the face that he had to travel out of state to get a corrective rhinoplasty. He made a horrible joke. He hadn’t even been talking to me.

From a speech given by the Tennessee state senator in April during a debate on a bill to make camping along highways a misdemeanor. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I haven’t given y’all a history lesson in a ...

T he only thing everyone can agree on about why Donald Trump does what he does is that his reasons are not obvious. There are innumerable proposals on offer for an intellectual framework that ...

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From a list of 891 periodicals removed in July from the U.S. Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s on-base stores. Magazine sales at military exchanges declined by 18.3 percent between… ...

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From the November 2014 Supreme Court oral argument in Yates v. United States. In 2007, a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer found seventy-two undersize red grouper on John L. Yates’s… ...

Discussed in this essay: The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Harper Perennial. 400 pages. $16.99.. The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow.Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 704 pages.

China’s covert campaign to intimidate Uighur exiles. Since early 2017, when the Chinese Communist Party intensified its repression of Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, it has been virtually ...

Discussed in this essay: Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald, by Carole Angier.Bloomsbury. 640 pages. $32. In mid-August of this year I traveled from Berlin to the small town of Sonthofen, in ...

Discussed in this essay: The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan.Scribner. 352 pages. $28. She put a PowerPoint presentation in a novel, and the world said: OMG. It was 2010, and PowerPoint had been around ...

Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. Edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter. Translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton University Press. 944 pages. $39.95. Our doomed thought ...