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Preamble

Paper Moons

By Lewis H. Lapham

Americans have a genius for the artful dodge, but also an infallible willingness to play the fool.

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Essay

A Fish Tale

By David Samuels

Long before Moby Dick, Herman Melville set off on a Polynesian trip that became a famous literary hoax.

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Essay

We Buy Broken Gold

By Clancy Martin

Why would a wealthy diamond merchant in a three-thousand-dollar suit want to cheat me out of a hundred bucks’ worth of gold?

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Death in the Sickroom, by Edvard Munch, 1893. Wikimedia Commons / Munch Museum.

Essay

Rogue Wounds

By Daniel Mason

Playing ill or feigning madness has been a con for hundreds of years. But can a fake sickness become a real sickness?

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