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Terry Allen’s "Cross the Razor"

How one artist started a conversation across the US-Mexico border
Brendan Greaves

Facing America’s Social Crisis

The United States is at a turning point in economic policy. What happens next is crucial.
Nicholas Mulder

The Moment

Why Han Kang’s Nobel Matters

My mother’s generation experienced unspeakable violence. Han found the words for it.
Yung In Chae

Images from the War

Doha Kahlout
translated by Yasmine Seale

A Lost Future for the Middle East

Religious pluralism was a possibility after the Ottoman Empire. European colonialism changed that.
Ussama Makdisi

How the Radical Right Remade Nationalism

What happens when the central goal of politics becomes preserving national identity?
Suzanne Schneider

Overlapping ethnic demographics and inverse power relations across a border often draw neighboring states into domestic conflict, and Ukraine and Russia have proved no exception.

Andreas Wimmer History Is Repeating Itself in Ukraine

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National Book Award Finalists

Fady Joudah

The poet on how the war in Gaza changed his work
Aria Aber

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
Percival Everett

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware

Vintage Merch

Buying someone else’s history
Hanif Abdurraqib

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

Mister Durand

An excerpt from a novel in progress
Deirdre Madden

Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors

What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin
Drama

The Hundred Flowers Project

An excerpt and annotation

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