When Firestone was an infant, her father, then a soldier in the U.S. Army, witnessed the immediate aftermath of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen; as Shulamith’s sister Tirzah described it, “He was ...

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 ...

We’d been in Maine six months, but for the first three our kids had continued to Zoom with their Brooklyn school and then summer had come. And then it was the third week of September, and I was still ...

At Abraham Lincoln High School, black kids play basketball for love, a college scholarship, and--if they can beat the odds--a way out ...

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From Speaking in Tongues, by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, which will be published this month by Liveright. j. m. coetzee: I was writing something yesterday, concentrating intensely on getting ...

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The corpse flower, when it opens every few years, attracts admirers by the tens of thousands. It is only in bloom for two or three days, and for those days it stinks. People stand in line to savor its ...

Last night, Harper's won the National Magazine Award for fiction, for Stephen King's story “Batman and Robin Have an Altercation” (September 2012).

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