A betrayal / Hannah Dreier --
American hustler / Franklin Foer --
A kingdom from dust / Mark Arax --
Shallow graves and An interview with Ben Taub by Eric Sullivan / Ben Taub --
The genocide the U.S. didn't see coming / Nahal Toosi --
We made it. we depend on it. we're drowning in it. plastic / Laura Parker --
The first porn president and I believe her and The abandoned world of 1982 / Caitlin Flanagan --
Misjudged / Jill Lepore --
The National Geographic twins and the falsehood of our post-racial future and The profound presence of Doria Ragland and The Ford-Kavanaugh hearing will be remembered as a grotesque display of patriarchal resentment / Doreen St. Félix --
This place is crazy / John J. Lennon --
Getting out of prison meant leaving dear friends behind / Robert Wright --
Getting out / Reginald Dwayne Betts --
How to be an artist / Jerry Saltz --
The art of dying well / Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B. Koehler --
Taming the lionfish / Jeff MacGregor --
The breakup museum / Leslie Jamison --
Skinned, by Lesley Nneka Arimah, and A conversation with Claire Boyle and Karolina Waclawiak / The ASME Award for Fiction.