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The Children's Hospital: On David Foster Wallace

Vulnerability was what made David Foster Wallace so beloved, but it often led him to surrender too much in his fiction.

William Deresiewicz

Shelf Life: On 'Granta'
Under the editorship of John Freeman and Ellah Allfrey, Granta is thriving again.
Scott Sherman
Posted 06/29/2011
The Hills Are Alive: On the Lakotas and the Black Hills
The story of the Lakotas does not end with their loss of the Black Hills or the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Ari Kelman
Posted 06/29/2011

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Aimee Semple McPherson dressed as a motorcycle cop for a sermon
Little Churches Everywhere: California's Evangelical Conservatism (Religion, History, Books and the Arts)

As contradictory as the gospel truths of California's digerati are the dogmas of West Coast evangelicalism, a melding of Jefferson and Jesus.

Chris Lehmann
A Test of Loyalties: The Exiles of the American Revolution (History, Books and the Arts)

Between a fifth and a third of the white population remained loyal to Britain in 1776. Why?

Nicholas Guyatt
Drug violence in Mexico
The Monster and Monterrey: The Politics and Cartels of Mexico's Drug War (Drug War and Drug Policy, Books and the Arts, World)

When organized crime and drug violence came to Monterrey, the city turned to the military for help. It was a choice many would come to regret.

Nik Steinberg

Lyric Nation

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Three Poems by Devin Johnston (Lyric Nation)

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"Set Apart," "Early April," "Marco Polo"

Devin Johnston

Three Poems by Ange Mlinko (Lyric Nation)

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"After Sappho (The Volcano)," "The Children's Museum," "Threading the Q"

Ange Mlinko

Three Poems by Jeffrey Yang (Lyric Nation)

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"Abalone," "Eel," "Greed's Prisoner"

Jeffrey Yang

Lingo

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The Canting Crew (Lingo, Linguistics, Books and the Arts)

A new edition of The First English Dictionary of Slang is a saucy survey of the rogue jargon of the late seventeenth century.

Ange Mlinko
Out of the Mouths of Birds (Lingo, Linguistics)

Is there a human language without birdsong in it?

Ange Mlinko
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Languaging (Lingo, Linguistics)

Can a second language provide us with a new self?

Ange Mlinko

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