SPOTLIGHT

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 15, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 15, 2024

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The Patron Subjects

Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?

Asturias Days

All in Your Head

Read Me a Poem

“A Prayer for My Daughter” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Web Essays

My Cousin Manya

One survivor’s story

Book Reviews

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Asturias Days

Poco a Poco

Read Me a Poem

“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov

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Portrait of the Artist

Dottie Lo Bue

House and home

Book Reviews

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

Books Essay

Finding Your Voice

How one writer discovered his when he stopped looking for it and learned instead to listen

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Cover Story

Our Fate Is in the Stars

Today’s space program still does amazing things, but nothing like Apollo. It’s time to begin again.

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Works in Progress

Speeding at a Glacial Pace

Four questions about the future of Antarctica

Portrait of the Artist

Phaan Howng

Fluorescent Waterfalls

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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

In search of the places that inspired the Iliad—and the traces of upheaval, conflict, and migration that led to its creation

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Works in Progress

Counting Americans in the Digital Age

The census goes online

A group of people dressed in red and black hold protest signs beneath umbrellas. One reads "Sex work is work."
Article

Sex Workers of the World United

Last year’s SESTA/FOSTA legislation aimed to limit sex trafficking—but it’s just the latest in a long line of policies designed to criminalize the oldest profession

A brightly dressed woman and child, and further off, a man, walked on the beach in front of a backdrop of shiny new construction.
Letter From

Cambodia: Gambling on the Future

Sihanoukville is rapidly being remade into a modern playground for the rich, thanks to investment from China

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Article

Rape Trees and Rosary Beads

Field notes of a Border Patrol agent

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