It is not, of course, every day in the life of an editor that an unpublished work arrives on one’s desk (or, these days, on one’s screen) that—from its opening lines to its last—is already irrefutable, both necessary and sufficient. Though I’ve been at this job for (do you remember that scene . . .
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The artist Anur Hadžiomerspahić has 5000 friends. He’d like to have more, but Facebook caps the number at five thousand. It’s a generous allowance, considering studies in evolutionary psychology have demonstrated that human beings, like our primate ancestors, can only maintain approximately 150 complex social connections at any given time. Facebook, of . . .
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