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    May 16

    Permanent Pandemic New fiction by Ottessa Moshfegh Surviving Precocious Puberty Rachel Kushner on France’s long-lost revolutionary spirit Jean Cocteau’s food for thought And more, in Harper's June issue

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  2. Percentage of Americans who strongly consider themselves vigilantes : 20 Whose favorite superhero is Batman : 45

    Adam West as Batman
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  3. "How had she miraculously survived the illness? Had she seen death? What devilish germ might she have brought back with her? Why did God spare her, only to leave her orphaned and blind? Wouldn’t death have been more merciful?" — Ottessa Mosfegh

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    11 hours ago

    New episode with Chris Beha, editor and author of The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. He makes that the case that Pontoppidan's Lucky Per is a masterpiece of modern literature.

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  5. "Those in favor of war are older, more often male, poorer, less educated, less urban, informed by the television; those opposed are younger, more often female, more urban, richer, more educated, informed by social media." — Emmanuel Carrère

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  6. "When people in power talk shit, it is the rest of us who have to eat it."

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    I appreciate everyone's kind comments about my column, and you should all go read 's much more thorough meditation on the "disinfo" trend from last year — which continues to inform my thinking about this stuff.

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  8. “His goal isn’t Ukraine, but western civilization, the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat.” — Vladimir Sorokin on Vladimir Putin Photographs by

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  9. "...And yet, though some of my coevals associate the following sentiment with petulant and self-absorbed Zoomers, I confess that I am tired. I feel as though the past few years have broken me."

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  10. "...It has been a foretaste of a new mode of existence. If I am going to have any hope of thriving under future conditions, I will need to get used to all this...

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  11. "I am old enough to feel that this plight of ours—filling out onscreen forms, recovering lost passwords, scanning QR codes, downloading each new version of our government-approved coronavirus tracker or vaccine passport—represents more than just an onerous imposition...

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    15 hours ago

    Another recommendation this week is Kent Russell's journey into the world of John R. King IV and a wider exploration of the dark subcultures of contemporary magic. (Subscription required.) (4/5)

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  13. Percentage increase in the number of doomsday bunkers purchased in Texas since Russia invaded Ukraine : 1,100

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    15 hours ago

    A fun read, especially if you're interested in cults.

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    May 19

    "King would be offering tarot readings, but for me, he said, he might perform services that would disclose how demons affect everyday lives, my own included. I booked my flight and dusted off my camping gear." Kent Russell,

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  16. "...Meanwhile, those pockets of resistance where we find at least some commitment to the popular will and unease about technological overreach are often, as progressives have rightly but superciliously noted, hot spots of bonkers conspiracism."

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  17. "Much of this is not new: it’s just capitalism doing its thing. What seems unprecedented is the eagerness with which progressives have have sought to marginalize dissenting voices as belonging to fringe conspiracy theorists and unscrupulous reactionaries...

    Illustrations by Matthew Richardson
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  18. Emmanuel Macron plays with various images and pretends to want to honor certain aspects of the spirit of ’68, but he represents the obliteration of whatever vestiges have lingered. — Rachel Kushner

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  19. May 19

    "The wizard’s blog opened thusly: 'I, the sole legitimate heir to the ancient magical traditions of King Solomon the Wise, propose to demonstrate his powerful art in its true and proper form so that it will not pass from history unknown.'”

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  20. May 19

    "The light that is off Is still a light." — Geoffrey G. O’Brien

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  21. May 19

    "In my physical form, there is no trace of the strange little girl... But she is there in the frame, trying to dodge my gaze. I see her now the way all adults saw me then, and I’m as much an enemy to my childhood as they were."

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