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Blue Sky Days

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

On Nudity

by Norman Rush,

By Norman Rush, from Granta 126, published earlier this year. Rush is the author of several works of fiction, including, most recently, Subtle Bodies. From an early age, I was…

Bad Romance

by Jesse Barron,

One genre and a billion happy endings

Emptying the World’s Aquarium

by Erik Vance,

The dismal future of the global fishery

Darling

by Richard Rodriguez,

A middle-aged woman in a brown wool suit tapped my shoulder after mass. She knew my name. She said she had read an interview I gave to an online magazine…

Longer Ways to Go

by John Chiara,

Drawn by the Sun

by Katy Grannan,

The damnedest things

by Takayuki Yamamoto,

Bully pulpit

by Thomas Frank,

Grim repo

by Harper’s Staff,

Weekly Review

A prison fire in Honduras killed 359 people, making it the deadliest such fire on record. An inmate was reported to have started the fire after phoning the state governor’s…