Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, July 3rd

“It’s so nice to get out of the city! So much space—and yet it still feels like we’re being watched? Like a horror movie? Or that true-crime podcast we listened to on the drive up? When are we leaving again?”


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Raymond Antrobus Reads John Lee Clark

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Protactile Version of ‘Tintern Abbey,’ ” and his own poem “Signs, Music.”


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Choose Your Own Adventure: Starting a Garden

What with all the flowers, you’ve now got a bee problem. How do you handle this?


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The Fake Oilman

Alan Todd May passed himself off as an oil magnate, insinuated himself into West Palm Beach high society, and conned people out of millions.


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A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists

Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.


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The Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling is a Victory for Donald Trump

The conservative Justices gutted the January 6th case—and have made it harder to prosecute any President.


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Why the French Far Right Triumphed

An expert on French politics explains where President Emmanuel Macron went wrong in calling a snap election.


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The Irresolvable Tragedy of the Karen Read Case

The trial, which ended on Monday in a deadlocked jury, became an object of obsession for offering up a mix of conspiracy, corruption, and hard-drinking oblivion.


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Fitzcarraldo Editions Makes Challenging Literature Chic

In ten years, the London publishing house has amassed devoted readers—and four writers with Nobel Prizes.


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“Consent,” by Jill Ciment, and “Change,” by Édouard Louis, Reviewed

“Consent,” by Jill Ciment, and “Change,” by Édouard Louis, revisit the past with an eye for distortion and error.


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