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“The Goon Squad, ” by Daniel Kolitz, is cited by judges for “original, stylish magazine storytelling. ”

Nat Segnit on theme-park propaganda, the international appetite for jingoism, and a hypothetical Winston Churchill musical

It is a matter of necessity or a choice freely made; a burdensome condition or a vintage-Polaroid fantasy: to live in a van. During the pandemic, the

His shortsighted analysis of the war in Iran was followed by a blatant lie.

Gaby Del Valle on reporting from conservative events, the young New Right, and Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy

Christine Smallwood on being the younger child, the loneliness of contemporary fiction, and feminist psychoanalysis

Joshua Hunt on Ukrainian sumo, the Japanese far right, and the changing face of the country

Sam Kriss on AI’s false starts, doomsday scenarios, and eccentric proponents

Nell Freudenberger on campus novels, writing as prophecy, and coming of age in the Clinton era

Where will the rise of Trump and Minneapolis martyrs take us?

Hari Kunzru on psychogeography, the politics of trespass, and the hidden tombs of New York

Rosa Lyster on tree-related literature, trial reportage, and forensic botany

Richard E. Maltby Jr. on his fifty years of writing puzzles for Harper’s Magazine, his side hustle as a musical lyricist and Tony Award–winning director, and the crossword’s place in contemporary American culture

Five days before the U. S. military launched a series of air strikes on northern Venezuela and a Special Forces unit armed with blowtorches broke into a Venezuelan military compound to kidnap that country’s president and his wife, a group of shamans gathered on the Peruvian coast, imbibed hallucinogenic cocktails, and predicted that the Venezuelan president would be removed from office in 2026.