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The Toxic History of the Salton Sea

The Toxic History of the Salton Sea The Toxic History of the Salton Sea

A new book by Traci Brynne Voyles catalogs the alarming events that created one of the West’s most polluted bodies of water.

Aug 10, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta

Palestinian Resistance Tore Down the Green Line Long Ago

Palestinian Resistance Tore Down the Green Line Long Ago Palestinian Resistance Tore Down the Green Line Long Ago

Despite their physical dispersal, the Palestinian people have never been more connected.

Aug 10, 2022 / Feature / Amjad Iraqi

The Line Separating Israel From Palestine Has Been Erased—What Comes Next?

The Line Separating Israel From Palestine Has Been Erased—What Comes Next? The Line Separating Israel From Palestine Has Been Erased—What Comes Next?

For 55 years, the Green Line has shut down our political imagination. Its disappearance gives us a chance to do things differently.

Aug 10, 2022 / Feature / Meron Rapoport

Keith Gessen’s Adventures in Parenting

Keith Gessen’s Adventures in Parenting Keith Gessen’s Adventures in Parenting

In his new book about parenting, Gessen offers a tour of anxieties set in the semi-gentrified Brooklyn of the 2020s.

Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ryu Spaeth

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Letters From the August 22/29, 2022, Issue Letters From the August 22/29, 2022, Issue

Gay liberation… Hooded justice… 

Aug 9, 2022 / Our Readers

Nation Poetry

less hope less hope

apologies. i was part of the joy industrial complex, told them their bodies were miracles & they ate it, sold someday, made money off soon & now. i snuck an ode into the el…

Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Danez Smith

Nation Poetry

Closure Closure

Is it the eight titanium pins around my knees or the fact that for three months the incisions were left open? I grew to know that plush of inside— the velvets, the iodine to preven…

Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sheila Black

Former vice president Mike Pence

Trump on Pence as Mob Constructs Gallows Trump on Pence as Mob Constructs Gallows

No calls for dispersal, just insults to Pence Was what Trump relayed to the crowd he harangued. He called Pence disloyal and things worse than that. No thanks to his boss did Mike…

Aug 9, 2022 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Ottessa Moshfegh’s Cruel Worlds

Ottessa Moshfegh’s Cruel Worlds Ottessa Moshfegh’s Cruel Worlds

In her new novel, Moshfegh explores the brutish world of the Middle Ages.

Aug 8, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Elvia Wilk

Juan Emar

Juan Emar’s Forgotten Vanguard Juan Emar’s Forgotten Vanguard

Influenced by the Surrealists, the obscure Chilean novelist took to task the social realist status quo in his magical fiction.

Aug 4, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Hanson O’Haver 

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