Our July issue includes Andrew Kay’s report on how OCD came to haunt American life, Lewis Hyde’s essay on deep time and climate change, Pete McKenzie’s investigation into how a band of island nations in the South Pacific became Israel’s staunchest defenders, Alex Reisner’s annotation of the system prompt for Elon Musk’s AI Grok, Lydia Davis’s essay on the art of observation, Charlie Lee’s review of Harry Crews’s oeuvre, fiction from C. Mallon, and more.
