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“Todd” by Etgar Keret Recommended by Electric Literature Issue No. 45 MY FRIEND TODD wants me to write him a story that will help him get girls into bed. “You’ve already written stories that make girl

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Guy Davenport; photograph by Jonathan Williams Counterpoint Press has just released The Guy Davenport Reader , edited by Davenport's literary executor, Erik Reece . It's a good, basic overview of Dave

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In 2010, Ian Brzezinski joined the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank focused on foreign policy issues. The position, and a perch on Atlantic’s Strategic Advisory Group, seemed natural for some

This article appears in the June 10-17, 2013 issue . Editor’s Note: We received a letter from the Center for American Progress on May 24, 2013 objecting to aspects of Ken Silverstein’s article. In the

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David Rothenberg Illustration by Tom Bachtell Yes, the cicadas are here, or somewhere, anyway. This would be Brood II of the periodical seventeen-year cicada Magicicada septendecim , last seen on the

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In Silicon Valley, government is considered slow, staffed by mediocrities, and ridden with obsolete rules and inefficiencies. Illustration by Istvan Banyai In 1978, the year that I graduated from high

Op-Ed Contributor Turkey’s Authoritarian Turn THE huge demonstrations that engulfed Istanbul over the weekend were initially prompted by a small grievance: the government’s decision to build a shoppin