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Our June 12 issue is now online, with Fintan O’Toole on the Chicago pope, Namwali Serpell on Nettie Jones’s breathtaking bawdiness, Tim Judah on new weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, Tim Flannery on the body electric, Christopher Benfey on a pretty porcelain teapot, Michael Hofmann on the inscrutable Andrey Platonov, Philip Clark on Arnold Schoenberg, Dawn Marie Paley on fighting drug addiction in Mexico, Jenny Uglow on orchidomania, Susan Neiman on Daniel Kehlmann, poems by Christina Davis and Yuliia Iliukha, and much more.

Tim Judah
Arms Race in Ukraine

New drone technology is transforming the battlefield in Ukraine—and demonstrating the obsolescence of much Western weaponry.

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Namwali Serpell
Keeping Up with Mrs. Jones

Nettie Jones’s debut novel, published in 1984 and newly reissued, is still breathtaking and shockingly bawdy.

Susan Neiman
The Conformist

Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, The Director, documents the little compromises that led G.W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism.

Robert G. Kaiser
Unraveling a Repressive Regime

Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause recognizes the achievements of the Soviet dissidents who for decades found the strength to resist stultifying Communist rule.

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John J. Lennon
Finding the Story

Running a nonfiction workshop in prison for three months, I saw how writing could let my peers forge a new identity. Then it came to an end.

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