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Fiction
The Empty Tune
Naomi Skwarna
Longreads
The Threshold
Meg Bernhard
Readings
Chía, Goddess of the Moon
Dora Prieto
Poetry
Winter
Gary Barwin
Politics
The Cold War is Still With Us
John Michael McGrath
Dispatch
Adventures in Massey College’s Historic 19th-Century Print Shop
Emily M. Keeler
||Sarah; white dress; white car; Marfa, Texas; June 2012.
Essay
How to Make Love in America
Sarah Nicole Prickett

Scenes from a 10-day road trip across the United States.

Studies Show
Can Police Horses Handle the Stress?
Linda Besner
Politics
The Washington Post Takes a Bold Stand Against Journalism
Nicholas Hune-Brown
Technology
All Cart and No Horse: Ouya’s Disappointing Debut
Navneet Alang
||Photo by Rachel Papo, from the series Serial No. 3817131
Interview
We’re Not So Different, You and I: An Interview with Shani Boianjiu
Naomi Skwarna

The 26-year-old Israeli novelist—and former weapons instructor—debuted last year with The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, inspired by her experience in the IDF. She is serious and blunt, but liable to giggle at Youtube videos.

Politics
On Quebec’s Latest Uniquely Awful Attempt at Secularism
John Michael McGrath
Shelf Esteem
Gail Scott’s Border-Crossing Books
Emily M. Keeler
Lost Library
How Phantom of the Paradise is the Daft Punk Story
Tom Jokinen

Daft Punk—the two French musicians in futuristic helmets responsible for the feel-good anthem of the summer—owe much to Brian De Palma's classic 1974 cult film Phantom of the Paradise.

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Lana Hall
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Johnathan Fahey
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In the Mist
Rider Alsop
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