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War Memorial
They commute with guns. A lot of Israeli soldiers live at home while they do their mandatory service, and, like me, they take the bus to work every day. I’m a student so for me that means carrying...
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Ask Questions Later
At the worst possible moment, Battlefield Hardline valorizes police violence. An early screenshot of Battlefield Hardline. The Battlefield series, one of the past decade’s most popular video-game...
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You Too Can Be a General
Hemingway with Lanham on September 18, 1944, after the breakthrough of the Siegfried Line in Western Germany. From Ernest Hemingway’s letter to Colonel Charles T. Lanham, April 2, 1945. Hemingway...
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The Lights in the Kitchen Were On
At the table with James Salter. Salter in 1989. Photo: Sally Gall “To revisit the past was like constantly crossing some Bergschrund,” James Salter writes in the introduction to his 1997 memoir, “a...
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The Role of the Poet: An Interview with Solmaz Sharif
In 2014, I heard Solmaz Sharif read “Look,” the title poem from her debut collection. Look inserts military terminology into intimate scenes between lovers, refashioning hollow, bureaucratic language...
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Temple Tomb Fortress Ruin
“Temple Tomb Fortress Ruin,” an exhibition of paintings by John Wellington, is at the Lodge Gallery through March 5. Wellington embraces the formal tactics of the old masters to depict a bleak,...
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Camouflage Is the New Black
I have always loved shopping: in real life, online, even from a plane thirty-thousand feet above the earth, courtesy of SkyMall. I buy clothes, handbags, makeup, perfume, kitchen items—nothing that...
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No One Has a Monopoly on Death
Peder Severin Krøyer, Copenhagen: Roofs under the Snow, 1870–1900, oil on canvas, 7″ x 9″. January 1981 It’s snowing. I’m thinking back to January 1979, when I received a letter whose writer told of...
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Dreams in First-Person Shooter
Still from accompanying video (below), edited by Miles Lagoze and Eric Schuman. A few weeks before our unit’s operation started, Lance Corporal Loya and I stood over a wadi, waiting for each other to...
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Re-Covered: Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles
In Re-Covered, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be. In March 1937, eight months into the Spanish Civil War, Virginia Cowles, a twenty-seven-year-old freelance...
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