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The Inheritance

Fiction by Justin Torres
Scenes from a bedside and beyond

An Investor’s Republic

By Chloe Thurston
How America fell in love with stocks

When the Arctic Melts

By Elizabeth Kolbert
What the fate of Greenland means for Earth

War Unbound

By Oona Hathaway
The breakdown of international humanitarian law

Yiddish Trash

By Saul Noam Zaritt
Taking the schundroman seriously

Mr. Potter

By Jamaica Kincaid
The words that echo through life

Transparency

By Daniel Jütte
A German kaleidoscope

The View from Barbour County

By Jefferson Cowie
White freedom, federal power, the Black vote

Feel-Ins, Know-Ins, Be-Ins

By Adam Shatz
The spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders

Literature Matters

By Agnes Mueller
Negotiating identity in German fiction now

First Meeting

By David Grubbs
Every mark on paper an acoustic signal

A Gift from Ronald L. Steel

By The Editors
An alumni gift for continuing scholarship

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