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Daybreak: A Novel by Matt Gallagher

The notion of “the good war”—a just, nationwide effort against an obvious and perilous aggressor—pulses through Matt Gallagher’s latest novel, Daybreak (Simon & Schuster, Feb 20, 2024). This notion has perhaps been freshly reinstated in American public discourse,

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Fiction

The Shadow of Our Own Bomb

It was a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation. By killing the Rosenbergs, you have quite simply tried to halt the progress of science by human sacrifice. Magic, witch-hunts, autos-da-fé, sacrifices—we are

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Translations

Captive

About the Novel: O Fogo Será a Tua Casa (Fire Shall Be Your Home) by Nuno Camarneiro was published in Portugal in 2018. It tells the story of an international group of hostages being held by rebels

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Fiction

Silent Night

The United Press work room at the Nuremberg Trials. Source: The National Archives and Records Administration via the Courtroom 600 project.   Editor’s Note: At the end of this story is an audio recording of the

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Nonfiction

The Battles 

Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED I don’t like my last name. Well, the first part of the hyphenation, the Bernstein. As a child, I thought it lumbering, inelegant. The name comes from a

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Nonfiction

Outdoor Encampments

A sign for a restaurant at the Del Rio port of entry. Photo: Jenn Budd.   Few Americans understand the policies that make up the immigration deterrence operations of the US Border Patrol. These mandates

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Nonfiction

Congressional Hearings Are a Pretext for Assault on Higher Education

From left: Harvard president Claudine Gay; Penn’s Liz Magill; Pamela Nadell, a professor of history and Jewishstudies at American University; and Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images. www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/business/university-leaders-testimony-nightcap/index.html We need to

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Translations

The Poetry of Hiba Abu Nada 

Translator’s Note: Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, educator, and nutritionist. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead won the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She held a BA in Biochemistry and an MA

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Fiction

Blackout

    At sundown, we would go for walks along the road that went from the airmen’s quarters toward Central School. It was a quiet road back then, when we lived there for a brief

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