By Lauren Markham,
The strange history of our futile border fortifications
Oslo Discord
By Anders Behring Breivik,
From a twenty-seven-page letter by Anders Behring Breivik sent last October to corrections officials in Norway. Breivik is currently serving a twenty-one-year sentence in a maximum-security prison near Oslo for…
Anders the crusader
Reservoir/year's end/Setesdal/helicopter I
Art by Per Fronth,
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