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dean rader Studies for Excursus

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lina meruane (trans. andrea rosenberg) Wir die Deutschen 12

brandi bird The Tick

kid teo Boneyards of the Cold War

teju cole & joe penney photographs by joe penney In Niger: A Conversation

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jan ZWicky A Note on Jane Jacobs’s Systems of Survival, or Why We Will Not Be Able to Prevent Global Ecological Collapse 48

eleanor Wachtel An Interview with Masha Gessen

anne carson Sokrates to Krito (letter from prison)

michael ondaatje & edWidge danticat For Toni Morrison

juan gabriel vÁsQueZ What Stories Know about Us

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