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November 2012

Chris Hedges goes to Scranton, Pennsylvania to investigate how the American dream ends; Stephanie Nolen visits the set of After Midnight, Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of a Salman Rushdie classic; Dave Cameron describes the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease; Medeine Tribinevicius deconstructs the twenty’s new design; Jeff Nield profiles Ezra Levant; fiction by Matt Lennox…

Photograph by Jaime Hogge
November 2012

After Midnight

November 29, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Stephanie Nolen

On the set of Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of a Salman Rushdie classic

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Photograph by Amy Friend
November 2012

Fade to Light

November 22, 2012February 12, 2021 - by Dave Cameron

One of the most terrifying aspects of Alzheimer’s disease is that those afflicted can seldom tell us what it is like

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Photograph by Alan Chin
November 2012

A Metaphor for America

November 15, 2012October 24, 2020 - by Chris Hedges

Scranton, Pennsylvania, was once a robust manufacturing centre. Now its factories are abandoned, its municipal coffers empty, its citizens in despair. This is how the dream ends

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A Speaking Engagement
Fiction / November 2012

A Speaking Engagement

November 5, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Matt Lennox

But it was over now. It was over, what little part he’d really had in it, and his hour had never come, and now he was going around talking about …

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November 2012

Frequently Questioned Answers

November 5, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

“Keystone XL? Is that a superhero, Daddy?”

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November 2012 / Society

A Pilgrim’s Progress

November 5, 2012October 1, 2018 - by Anik See

In Flanders, the hops grow

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November 2012 / Poetry

When Will I Find Myself?

October 29, 2012June 22, 2016 - by Gabe Foreman

No nothing gets under you. It’s about to roll past but you crane and stop it with your foot, then nest on it. It’s real life, you breathe, but can’t …

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November 2012

Peggy Baker Just Won’t Stop

October 29, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Jon Eben Field

The sixty-year-old performer pushes herself, and her art form, to the limit

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November 2012 / Society

Self Service

October 29, 2012June 9, 2020 - by Ivor Tossell

“Saving Africa” to achieve personal growth is not the way to see the world

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November 2012 / Poetry

Stop-Time

October 22, 2012July 20, 2021 - by Katia Grubisic

This poem appeared in the November 2012 issue

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