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Russia\\u2019s axeing of the Black Sea grain deal reveals a war machine running out of options. We explore how to get the deal back on track. A month-long mystery surrounding China\\u2019s absent foreign minister has grown deeper: now his memory is being scrubbed from official websites (10:15). And literary criticism has lost its claws\\u2014gaining a newfound civility that is bad for readers (16:37).

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