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letter from the editors5 ON POLITICS

essays9 HERE, NOW • Adam M. Bright

Eckhart Tolle takes the stage

21 THE WITHERING OF NARCISSUS • Jonny Thakkar

Playing tyrant on the internet

33 DEATH IS NOT THE END • Jon BaskinDavid Foster Wallace: his legacy and his critics

46 THE PASSION OF THE COW • Charles ComeySimplicity and moral motivation

symposium: what is politics for?56 IDEALISM IN OBAMA’S AMERICA • Sam Brody

61 SELF-CONSCIOUS PUBLICS • Mark Hopwood

65 ARENDT AND THE SPACE OF ACTION • Richard Polt

68 OBAMA: PHILOSOPHER-KING? • Jonny Thakkar

72 THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM • Mark Lilla

76 TWO MODES OF IDEOLOGICAL MYSTIFICATION • Slavoj Žižek

reviews80 THE CREATION MUSEUM • Tom Stern

86 THE FEMALE SLACKER • Marie Chesaniuk

91 GATZ • John Beer

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letter from the editors4 ON HEALTH AND CARE

essays9 LOVE IN THE AGE OF THE PICKUP ARTIST • S. G. Belknap

Stendhal among the seducers

33 PREDATO RY HABITS • Etay ZwickHow Wall Street transformed work in America

49 HARD FEELINGS • Ben JefferyThe novels of Michel Houellebecq

62 THE WAR AT HOME • Nathan SchneiderOn violence and vigilance

73 THE (UPDATED) DICTIONARY OF RECEIVED IDEAS • Justin Evans

symposium: what is film for?79 DAVID CRONENBERG’S DISEMBODIED CINEMA • Tim Robey

84 ABBAS KIAROSTAMI ’S TRANSCENDENTAL STYLE • Kyle Smith

87 ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT DAVID LYNCH • Patryk Chlastawa

93 THE PERSPECTIVE OF TERRENCE MALICK • Jon Baskin

101 NO GOOD REASON • Robert Pippin

107 THE OLD F RONTIER • Geoffrey O’Brien

112 JOHN HUGHES • Sarah Miller-Davenport

reviews115 EXAMINED LIFE • Martha Nussbaum

126 MODERN WING • Maggie Taft

132 AN APOLOGY FO R THE COURSE AND OUTCOME OF CERTAIN EVENTS DELIVERED BY DO CTO R JOHN FAUSTUS ON THIS HIS F INAL EVENING • John Beer

136 GRANTA’S CHICAGO ISSUE • Jon Baskin

141 GAY PRIDE IN JERUSALEM • Rosalind Earis

145 A WO RLD WITHOUT WHY? • Raymond Geuss

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letter from the editors4 ON DEMO CRACY

essays9 CALL OF DUTY • Joshua Casteel

Gaming and reality in modern warfare

21 BO REDOM • Daniel SilverAn introduction

37 ECSTATIC VARIATIONS • Scott EspositoManuel Puig and the literature of appropriation

51 REVOLUTIONARY HISTO RY • Scott SpillmanGordon Wood’s idea of America

65 EVERYTHING ALRIGHT? • Adam BrightImprov as a way of life

art79 OBJECT LESSONS • Craig Carson

85 OBJECTS OF CIVIL SO CIETY • Geof Oppenheimer(New artwork)

symposium: what is conservatism for?103 THE DRAMA OF CULTURAL CONSERVATISM • James M. Wilson

115 CONSERVING THE NOVEL • Jon Baskin

121 BURKE, PAINE AND THE GREAT LAW OF CHANGE • Yuval Levin

129 WHY CONSERVATIVES SHOULD READ MARX • Jonny Thakkar

136 AN INTERVIEW WITH HARVEY MANSFIELD

reviews151 DON DELILLO • William Wood

158 THE WHITE RIBBON • Andrea Haslanger

163 JOE F RANK • Alex Yablon

job application169 JOHN HANSON’S STATEMENT OF TEACHING PHILOSOPHY • Jonathan Ullyot

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letter from the editors5 ON F REEDOM

essays13 STEROIDS, BASEBALL, AMERICA • Jon Baskin

Did drugs kill sports?

39 SALVATION FO R CIVILIANS • John LinganPorn as a way of life

53 LET ME RIDE • Daniel Levin BeckerJay Electronica and the art of listening

65 PROBLEMS WITH AUTHO RITY • Justin EvansJ. M. Coetzee and the novel as theory

81 THE HUMAN AND THE O CTOPUS • Tom SternA philosopher’s sickness

art94 WILD ALPS • Nicolò Degiorgis

With an introduction by Erica Cooke

symposium: what is sport for?111 SO CCER AND SCHIZOPHRENIA • Ben Jeffery

117 THE SWEATIEST OF THE LIBERAL ARTS • Drew A. Hyland

124 MARCH MADNESS • Michael Gillespie

132 HEALTHY RIVALRY • Michael Brearley

143 HAIL MARY TIME? • Jonny Thakkar

reviews157 CHRIS WARE’S ANL #20 • Tim Peters

167 SARAH PALIN’S ALASKA • Jessica Weisberg

172 CHICAGO HEIGHTS • Megan Marz

177 CHICAGO’S POLITICAL THEATER • John Beer

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letter from the editors5 ON O CCUPY WALL STREET

essays15 NOT EVEN PAST • Brickey LeQuire

Faulkner, 9/11 and the tragic view of history

35 S IZING UP OPRAH • Timothy AubryTherapy as a way of life

49 COMING TO TERMS • Jon BaskinFranzen, Wallace and the question of realism

67 A LACK OF AUDACITY? • Jacob A. SwensonObama and the common good

79 ON TIGER MOMS • Julie ParkAmy Chua is not the enemy

symposium: what is the left for?99 INTERVIEW • Bill Ayers

123 ANTI-POLITICS • Jonathan Leader Maynard

127 FREEING THE MARKET • William Davies

137 L IBYA AND THE LEFT • Michael Bérubé

145 TOWARD A SO CIAL SO CIALISM • Erik Olin Wright

reviews159 CLOUD GATE, TILTED ARC • Jacob Mikanowski

167 FUNNY GIRLS • Jessica Weisberg

175 9 /11 L ITERATURE • A-J Aronstein

185 SMALL TALK • Dora Zhang

195 REPETITION, O R: THE “REAL WO RLD” • Tim Peters

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letter from the editors5 ON FOOD

essays13 A PLEA FO R HUMAN FOOD • Charles Comey

43 OUT WITH THE NEW • Ben JefferySimon Reynolds’s retromania

61 SO CIALISM WE CAN BELIEVE IN • Jonny Thakkar(Part I)

81 MY JOB SEARCH • Emilie ShumwayA millennial looks for work

96 DICTIONARY OF RECEIVED IDEAS • Justin EvansAmerican politics addendum

symposium: what are animals for?101 CAVE TROUT • Fabien Tepper

109 ON KILLING ANIMALS • Gary Francione

117 USING ANIMALS • Heather Keenlyside

123 GETTING ANIMALS IN VIEW • Christine Korsgaard

131 IMAGINATION AND ADVO CACY • Alice Crary

138 SEEING DOUBLE • David Egan

reviews145 MAD MEN • Jacob Mikanowski

154 FURTHER EVIDENCE • Luc Sante

168 ROOTABAGA COUNTRY • Megan Pugh

173 BURNING MAN • Clarisse Thorn

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letter from the editors5 ON SECURITY

essays13 NO SUCH THING? • Jonny Thakkar

Margaret Thatcher and the end of society

32 PERILOUS AESTHETICS • Barrett SwansonPhotojournalism after Instagram

47 THE LONELY INTELLECTUAL • Justin EvansDavid Shields’s real problem

63 LOOKING BACK • Michael J. KramerChristopher Lasch and the role of the social critic

79 PREY • Katharine SmythWriting about the dead

symposium: what is marriage for?97 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH • Timothy Aubry

100 ON NOT KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE DOING • Mark Hopwood

104 JOINERS AND QUITTERS • Sam Brody

110 ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENTS • Clarisse Thorn

115 NATURAL LAWS • Jeremy Bell

127 NOT FO R ANYTHING • Alex Worsnip

133 MARRYING UP • Cammi Climaco

137 THE LOVE WE USE • Charles Comey

reviews157 THE WO RLD OF CO CA-COLA • Antón Barba-Kay

171 OUTRAGE • Cole Carter

183 ENLIGHTENED • Jon Baskin

192 1994 • Megan Walsh

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5 THE NEW HUMANITIES • The Editors

essays15 THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY • Scott Spillman

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history

37 SEARCHING FO R SHANGHAI • Moira Weigel Notes from the city of the future

51 BUILDING STO RIES • Merve Emre & Christian NakaradoHow comics can cure architecture

65 MOBILIZING MUTUAL LEARNING • Jonny ThakkarBureaucracy and idealism in Tartu, Estonia

symposium: what is science for?96 A PO RTFOLIO • D. Graham Burnett & Mark Dion

105 WONDER AND THE ENDS OF INQUIRY • Lorraine Daston

113 IN PRAISE OF THINGS • Lily Huang

118 THE SOVIET SCIENCE SYSTEM • Michael D. Gordin

128 POPULAR SCIENCE • Adam Alter

131 AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL LEMONICK

reviews147 NOMA • Jacob Mikanowski

159 NO RMAN RUSH • Charles Finch

173 CHARLIE TROTTER • Gordon Arlen

182 CARL VAN VECHTEN’S PHOTOGRAPHY • J. C. Gabel

191 THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL THEO RY • Raymond Geuss

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5 THE SO CIAL NETWO RK • The Editors

essays13 HELL • Meghan O’Gieblyn

The new strategy for dealing with damnation

37 PUTIN AND THE WEST • Brickey LeQuireThe politics of Eurasianism

53 THE EXILE ’S GAME • Thomas Chatterton WilliamsDuchamp, modernism and the art of chess

65 FOES OF GOD • Ben JefferyDon Delillo’s Cosmopolis

83 THE TRAGIC DIET • S. G. BelknapFood and finitude

symposium: what is privacy for?117 INTO THE CAVE • Dawn Herrera-Helphand

127 PRIVATE LIVES • Thomas Meaney

133 BEING KNOWN • Lowry Pressly

141 THE SO CIAL F ILTER • Rob Horning

148 THE GENETIC SELF • Nathaniel Comfort

reviews161 BACK IN THE DAY • Jesse McCarthy

175 WATCH DOGS • Steven Poole

183 DISTANT READING • Scott Esposito

195 WO RDLESS! • Tim Peters

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5 TO FELLOW TRAVELERS • The Editors

essays15 AFTER FERGUSON • Brandon M. Terry

#BlackLivesMatter and the legacy of civil rights

35 OUT OF GOOD REASONS • Jon BaskinElena Ferrante comes to America

51 COMPLICATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY • Tom SternAlain de Botton’s School of Life

67 FAIL AGAIN • David J. UngerWelcome to the Failure Festival

83 THE ART OF DECAY • Jacob Mikanowski

symposium: what is travel for?103 AGAINST HONEYMOONS • Charles Comey

115 AWAY GAMES • Ollie Cussen

121 THE SHUTTLE ERA • Sophia Nguyen

129 STENDHAL SYNDROME • Kristofer Lenz

143 BEING ELSEWHERE • Joshua C. A. Cohen

reviews157 FO RWARD WITH FUKUYAMA • Daniel Luban

177 MELANCHOLY • Carina del Valle Schorske

185 GAY BERLIN • Ian P. Beacock

197 DOUBTING T. S . ELIOT • Adam Plunkett

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5 ON PURITY • The Editors

essays15 THE INSANE IDEA • Meghan O’Gieblyn

AA and the false gospel of scientific self-help

35 BETTER NOW? • Adam MorrisQueer politics in transition

57 RETURNING THE GAZE • Sophie BeckMotherhood, beauty and being seen

71 ADD YOUR OWN EGG • Nakul KrishnaPhilosophy as a humanistic discipline

89 BAD SPIRITS • Molly LynchPrivilege and protest in Baltimore

symposium: what is protest for?105 L INKED FATE • Melina Abdullah

111 CROWD LOVE • Miranda Trimmier

119 BUILDING THE MOVEMENT • Mark Rudd

125 AGAINST DEMONSTRATIVE POLITICS • Barney Frank

129 AFTER THE CARNIVAL • Ashley Woodiwiss

137 POLITICAL FAITH • Oded Na’aman

reviews149 NEW WO RK • Tim Peters

161 KIDS • Moira Weigel

173 GAMELIFE • Andrew Blevins

183 KALAMAZOO • Josephine Livingstone

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5 ON POLITICAL FICTION • The Editors

essays15 AFTER THE FLOOD • Ben Jeffery

Home and Marilynne Robinson

35 WHO DID IT? • Hannah RosefieldMichael Lewis’s financial detective stories

49 THE TIME OF THE ASSASSINS • Jesse McCarthyParis after the attacks

67 CAMERA-PHONE LUCIDA • Jacob MikanowskiInstagram in art-historical perspective

symposium: what is poetry for?83 BY HEART • Carina del Valle Schorske

91 CLASS DISMISSED • Frank Guan

97 THE LAST OF THE IRON MEN • Max Nelson

107 DEMAGOGUERY AND POETRY • Danielle Charette

115 POET AT WO RK • O. T. Marod

123 PURE MADNESS • Jake Bittle

133 CASEBOOK • Anthony Madrid

reviews143 MULTIPLE PURPOSES • Kyle Beachy

151 MONO CLE MEN • Ollie Cussen

161 GRAVEYARDS • David Anderson

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5 ON OUR PRESIDENT • The Editors

symposium: what is america for?15 MIDWESTWO RLD • Meghan O’Gieblyn

23 A COUNTRY IS A COUNTRY • Michael S. Kochin

29 NEGATIVE GROWTH • José Ángel N.

37 TAR HEELS, ALIVE • Brandon R. Byrd

45 ARTICLES OF FAITH • Paul W. Gleason

53 BLACKNESS + AMERICA • Lauren Michele Jackson

59 DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL • Gal Katz

65 CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS • Scott Spillman

dialogues74 PLEASURE WON

Lauren Berlant on political emotions and the election

84 A NATION DOESN’T NEED WALLSFrancisco Cantú and John Washington on the border

dictionary101 THE CRISIS OF LANGUAGE PROJECT

essays107 P ILGRIM AT TINDER CREEK • Andrew Kay

Online dating and the academic job search

141 HEROES AND HOUSEWIVES • Emma LieberHow the 2016 presidential campaign got real

reviews165 I LOVE DICK • Eliza Starbuck Little

177 THE SELFISHNESS OF OTHERS • Andrew Blevins

189 S IMPLE LIVING • Laurel Berger

slush pile206 DEMO CRACY IN AMERICA

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5 ON SATIRE • The Editors

13 SO CIAL JUSTICE • Etymology

essays21 F INAL FANTASY • James Duesterberg

Neoreactionary politics and the liberal imagination

43 CLIMBING KANCHENJUNGA • Jacob MikanowskiEnlightenment at altitude

63 IT ’S A CIRCLE • Joshua CohenOn the closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

symposium: what is comedy for?91 SAINT BART • Steven Koteff

101 RALLYING SIGH • Dawn Herrera Helphand

109 THE AUDACITY OF JOKES • Lovia Gyarkye

117 PUNCHING DOWN • Justin E. H. Smith

125 INSERT PUNCHLINE • Michael J. Knowles

129 SHO CK AND OW • Sarah Sherman

dialogue136 THINGS DON’T MAKE SENSE

Sheila Heti and David Heti on doing comedy

further materials

151 COMEDY STUDIES

correspondence155 LESSER EVILS • Ursula Lindsey

Election season in Marseille

reviews179 THE GOOGLE BUS • Min Li Chan

195 THE ARCHERS • Željka Maroševic

207 DEBTHS • Max Nelson

slush pile226 ENDGAME

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5 ON REFO RMATION • The Editors

13 SECULARISM • Etymology

symposium: what is church for?21 TRUE STO RY • Tish Harrison Warren

29 A SERIOUS HOUSE • James Chappel

37 ABOVE MO RALITY • Hans Joas

45 TOUCHED BY THE SACRED • Lauren M. Jackson

51 CHARITABLE LIVING • Elizabeth Bruenig

57 CAN THERE BE AN ATHEIST CHURCH? • Tim Crane

63 THREE FUNERALS, NO WEDDING • Sarah Ruden

72 SURVEY • Five pastors on leading a church

dialogue80 ACCOUNTING FO R TRADITION

Philip Gorski on American civil religion

essays95 THE MASTER? • Nick Pinkerton

Paul Thomas Anderson as American auteur

111 RHAPSODY IN BLUE • Becca RothfeldA study of pleasure in pain

123 AMERICAN REAMS • David J. UngerThree days at Paper2017

139 CLOSE TO NOTHING • Aaron RobertsonThe autofictional parodies of Fleur Jaeggy

correspondence157 THE DISBELIEVER • Maddy Crowell

Hamed Abdel-Samad and the crisis of integration in Germany

reviews185 THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND • Jacob Hamburger

199 BAIDU BAIKE • Chenxin Jiang

209 ANSELM KIEFER • Lindsay Atnip

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5 ON THE POINT • The Editors

9 ELITISTS • Etymology

essays17 LEAVING HERLAND • Nora Caplan-Bricker

Utopian literature and the future of #MeToo

39 BLAME THE VICTIM • Gal KatzGuilt and repentance in the City of God

55 “THIS IS THE GIRL” • Philippa SnowLindsay Lohan in the Black Lodge

79 INNO CENCE ABROAD • Ursula LindseyThe awe and shock of Suzy Hansen

symposium: what are intellectuals for?97 TIRED OF WINNING • Jon Baskin

111 BLACK FIRE • Jesse McCarthy

121 ENLIGHTENMENT IDOLS • Ollie Cussen

129 I AM MADAME BOVARY • Anastasia Berg

137 ON BEING AN ARSEHOLE • Jonny Thakkar

145 WHAT A THING IS • Robert L. Kehoe III

151 SWITCHING OFF • Rachel Wiseman

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159 INTELLECTUALS IN CRISIS : A REQUIEM

dialogue162 THE STING OF KNOWLEDGE

Mladen Dolar on intellectuals and the university

correspondence175 WRESTLING IN PARIS • Andrew Kay

Diplomacy by takedown

reviews215 USEFUL IDIOTS • Frank Guan

229 GUARANTEED INCOME • John Thomason

241 THE AMAZON BOOKSTO RE • Antón Barba-Kay

slush pile254 THE LIFE OF THE MIND

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5 ON JUSTICE

13 SURVEILLANCE STATE • Etymology

essays21 S INGING AGAINST THE GRAIN • Kira Thurman

Playing Beethoven in the #BlackLivesMatter era

31 REGARDING JOAN MIRÓ • Sophie BeckThe worker and the artwork

49 ANTE UP • Frank GuanThe scales of power seen through Norman Podhoretz’s eyes

symposium: what is prison for?77 SO CIALIZING PUNISHMENT • Benjamin Ewing

85 REHABILITATIVE FAITH • Jacob Abolafia

93 ONLY ONCE I THOUGHT OF SUICIDE • Reginald Dwayne Betts

99 GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL • Kaya Naomi Williams

107 PERFO RMING TO SURVIVE • Edyson Julio

survey117 L IVING IN PRISON

dialogues130 ANOTHER JUSTICE

A conversation with James Forman, Jr.

142 CHARACTER AND DEEDA conversation with John J. Lennon on writing from prison

correspondence153 A LOST THING FINDING ITSELF • Matthew McKnight

Jazz at Lincoln Center

reviews175 THESE TRUTHS • Scott Spillman

185 BALANCHINE LIBERALISM • Ana Isabel Keilson

195 DENIS JOHNSON’S GOD • Aaron Thier

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5 ON DENIALISM • The Editors

13 THE ANTHROPO CENE • Etymology

essays19 LESSONS OF DEFEAT • Ursula Lindsey

Testimonies of the Arab left

33 WHAT WAS NEW ATHEISM? • Jacob HamburgerOn liberalism’s fading faith

49 THE EXCEPTION • Sasha ArchibaldRestoring Lois Weber

symposium: what is the earth for?71 ANIMAL MAGNETISM • Eliza Starbuck Little

79 PAST UNDERFOOT • Bathsheba Demuth

85 THE RADICAL CENTER • Courtney White

93 STRETCHING THE VEIL • Timothy Crimmins

101 TOWARD A USEFUL IGNO RANCE • Daegan Miller

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survey117 WO RKING WITH THE EARTH

correspondence135 THIS , TOO, WAS HISTO RY • Peter C. Baker

The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools

reviews169 THE SOULS OF YELLOW FOLK • Ben Jeffery

181 THE DEMON IN DEMO CRACY • Skomantas Pocius

193 THE LOSER • Daniel Felsenthal

p.s.210 ON THE END

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5 ON LEFT STRAUSSIANISM • The Editors

13 THE NEW DEAL • Etymology

essays21 THE DICTATO RSHIP OF THE PRESENT • John Michael Colón

67 IN HER OWN TIME • Danielle A. JacksonWhy we’re still looking for Lorraine Hansberry

83 CLOSER READING • Laura BaudotTeaching fiction at work

99 PROPHECY AND POLITICS • Rich BaumReading the Book of Amos in America

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remarks121 L IMITED TIME

An exchange between Robert Pippin and Martin Hägglund

correspondence145 FO RMS OF LIFE • Jacqueline Feldman

In the mud with the zadistes

reviews173 BODY COUNTS • Ethan Smith

187 HART ISLAND • Ingrid Norton

199 OF LOVE AND BLINDNESS • Lucy McKeon

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5 ON CHOOSING LIFE • The Editors

13 CUSTODY • Etymology

essays21 BAD INFINITY • James Duesterberg

The endurance of the liberal imagination

41 TREAT YOURSELF • Apoorva TadepalliBeyond millennial burnout

symposium: what are children for?59 HALF A PERSON • Agnes Callard

69 QUIET TIME • Jonny Thakkar

75 CLOSE LIKENESSES • Angie Cruz

83 UNNECESSARY GIFTS • Wesley Hill

89 A WO RLD WITHOUT CHILDREN • Samuel Scheffler

97 TO BE CONTINUED • Timothy Aubry

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survey108 BEING A KID

correspondence123 THE DEFENDER • Nargol Aran

Waiting for the revolution in Tehran

reviews149 BULLSHIT JOBS • Jonah Galeota-Sprung

161 IDLENESS • Charlie Tyson

171 THE REAL LOLITA • Becca Rothfeld

181 1989 • Robert Bird

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