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A poster with figures whose bodies include the letters C and P. El Lissitzky, Basic Calculus, 1928.
Essays

Of Martyrs and Robots

Propaganda and group identity
Megan Hyska
October 1, 2018
An old advertisement for Lucky Strike in which a blonde woman lights a cigarette.
Essays

Computational Propaganda

Public relations in a high-tech age
Renée DiResta
October 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Incarcerated Language

Reginald Dwayne Betts
October 1, 2018
A photograph of Leni Riefenstahl during filming, 1936.
Essays

Leni Riefenstahl

On a Nazi female filmmaker
Francine Prose
October 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

What Is An Emergency?

On the southern border
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 14, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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The Hall-Mills Murder Trial, 1926

A consideration of death
Harold Schechter
April 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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I Harbor a Stillborn Scribe of the German Tongue in Me

On Germans and Jewishness
Peter Wortsman
May 13, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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The Colt-Adams Affair, 1841

Notes on a murder
Harold Schechter
June 25, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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The “American Tragedy” Murder, 1906

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
March 4, 2019
The tombstone of Naomi Wise.
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The Murder of “Omie Wise,” 1808

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
June 29, 2018