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Reenchanted Science
December 22, 2022
Dreams die hard.
Invictus
On reading and translating poetry in an Albanian jail.
Wells Run Dry
December 20, 2022
India’s famers—and the nation’s largest aquifer system—are on the brink.
Fresh Hell
December 16, 2022
The Tide Is High
In what is no doubt a flamboyant cross-promotion for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, enthusiasm for the substance that covers 75 percent of the globe reached an all-time high this week, as humans seemed to rediscover the properties of wetness and ...
Past in Present
December 15, 2022
AIDS cultural production across the generations.
Have You Forgotten Him?
December 14, 2022
The energies of the POW/MIA movement still haunt our politics.
Shortsighted
December 12, 2022
Sight and Sound’s consumer criticism.
Fresh Hell
December 09, 2022
Irritable Vowel Syndrome
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a spangle moop in Pasadena . . . wait, wait, let me start again. In a vole in the gerund, there lorved an omelet . . . no, still not right. Call me Fish Mail! Well, if you’ve been mangling lines you were ...
Mad McMurdo
Nowhere on earth will you find more people talking ruefully of theropods.
Train in Vain
December 08, 2022
The great railroad strike that wasn’t.
Alaa on My Mind
December 07, 2022
What can we offer political prisoners like Alaa Abd el-Fattah?