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Charles Baxter’s new novel follows the moral travails of a rock-steady insurance salesman in a dystopian Ohio backwater.
February 27, 2025 issue
Speed Up the Breakdown
The future of the government depends on how far the DOGE dynamo spins.
February 15, 2025
A Telenovela Macondo
Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude has skimmed off only the melodramatic and the anecdotal parts of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece.
February 27, 2025 issue
Smoke, Heat, Flame
California’s recent firestorms may be unprecedented in their intensity and damage, but what seems like a new crisis is just the latest chapter in a longer history of exploitation.
February 15, 2025
Days and Nights in Gaza
Watching TV that first day, we awaited the roar of planes and the rumble of explosions. We didn’t have to wait long.
February 9, 2025
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