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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.

James Vincent on the opaqueness of the robotics industry, the deceptiveness of its marketing, and just how frightened we should be of a humanoid future

Brontez Purnell on relationships, recovery, and writing as thinking