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The New York Review of Books

The Crime of Human Movement

Pie-Dish Beetle Pursues Longer Life

Toward a New Realism

The Protection Racket

Friend of the Family

Life in the Ruins

‘The Kingdom of Ends’

Iran Exposed

A Mind Cast Out

Rescuing the People’s Parchment

God’s Directive

The Room

You’re Brutal, I’m Brutal

The Legacy of Red Vienna

The Horrors of Hepatitis Research

Hawthorne’s Mood Swings

Homage to Kharkiv

Letters