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The Editors
Kierkegaard on the Mississippi
Percival Everett refashions a Mark Twain classic
Zain Khalid
The Bad Enough Mother
Caroline Blackwood’s bleak comic world
Janique Vigier
Burning Bush
How the early ’90s set the stage for America’s crooked present
Gene Seymour
Time to Face Reality
Emily Nussbaum charts the history of a TV phenomenon
A.S. Hamrah
Paper Trail
A preview of Charlotte Shane’s forthcoming memoir; Christian Lorentzen on corporate publishing
Culture
Disposable Heroes
Moira Donegan
Fiction
Lo Countries
Katie Kadue
PRINT
Czech Mate
Helen Oyeyemi’s story within a story within a story
Hannah Gold
Tongues Untied
Ross Perlin on the flourishing of lost languages in New York City
Karan Mahajan
Loose Change
Vinson Cunningham’s novel of the Obama campaign
Christian Lorentzen
Into the Wild
Vladimir Sorokin’s high-risk fiction
Joy Williams
The Burden of the Ordinary
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s obsessive revolt against reason
Becca Rothfeld
Culture
Tongues Untied
Karan Mahajan
Fiction
Into the Wild
Joy Williams
Culture
All of Her
Harmony Holiday