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Revenge Fantasy

Jeffrey Goldberg compares clips from Tarantino's new Nazi-themed movie with footage from Schindler's List and Munich

Grave

Billy Collins reads this poem aloud

The Laugh

“Neal had believed the myths about hyenas. Until he saw them kill.”

PS

A breakup letter to my therapist

Fish Story

“It was a swollen, gasping, netherworld creature. I had to keep it alive until they could kill it.”

Voices of Love

Tales of swingers, seductions, and extraordinary perversions

Furlough

“Colleen was coming home from Iraq. But Moira was like a surrogate mother now, almost a surrogate wife.”

Least Resistance

“Our first hug, between thermostats and oil filters, gave me a glimpse of where our friendship might lead.”

Alba

“Último knew people claimed they’d seen the Virgin Mary. But this was Alba, an ordinary girl.”

Telling Tails

In fiction, details matter. But only imagination can illuminate the human soul.

Border Crossings

Does a national literature still have meaning in an age of open borders and polyglot cultures?

Eyes on the Prize

Literary awards are inherently subjective, but they are also the most powerful antidote we have to the decline of serious fiction.

Fiction Matters

Homestead

A Note from the Spadefoot Toads

Swan Song of the Last Believer

Hungry

Two Poems

Fire Ants

Bone Fires

Boy

Saving the American Auto

In-Matey

Status

Machiavelli's Discourses

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Miami: The Next Big Start-Up City?

How the city became a center for innovation

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A Brief History of Romantic Comedies

From The Atlantic's Chris Orr

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Life in 'the New Arctic'

A moving portrait of a fading landscape

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The Rise of New York City

A fascinating look at Manhattan in the 1940s

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'I Thought It Was Really Funny, but No One Else Did'

A day with New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator

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New Yorkers: The Winemaker

Make your own wine ... in New York City

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What Is Methane Hydrate?

"Flaming ice" is a vast natural energy source

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NASA's Time-Lapse of the Sun

Now with epic dubstep music

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A Video Letter From the Editor

Highlights from the May 2013 issue

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Shaken Not Tuned: Cocktail Experiments

Can a tuning fork improve a cocktail?

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The Rise of Environmentalism

Tracking 50 years, from the Love Canal disaster to Greenpeace

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Is He Cheating? A 1950s Guide

'That little blonde secretary from the office?’

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New Yorkers: Vintage Vacuum-Tube Amps

Risking electric shock to restore old amplifiers

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The DIY Piano-Bicycle

Everybody needs a hobby

Writers

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