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Ian Urbina reports on the North Korean workers sent by their government to work in Chinese factories, in conditions of captivity, violence, and sexual abuse, to earn money for their government.

The longtime head of the N.R.A., Wayne LaPierre, was found liable for improperly enriching himself and those close to him, and required him to pay more than $4.3 million back to the organization. But his deception went much deeper, Mike Spies writes.

The new film directed by Ethan Coen, “Drive-Away Dolls,” is set in 1999 but doesn’t have much to say about that time, Richard Brody writes. The result is a mere yarn that goes slack.

From New Yorker Humor, an evening with Flaco, the owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo and took up residence in the Park.

In its best moments, a new film about the 1985 charity single “We Are the World,” sung by 47 of America’s biggest stars, is a fever dream of some three dozen geniuses in their prime. Beyond that, it suggests some questions that bear further consideration, Sarah Larson writes.

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To describe honesty as Diana Athill’s hallmark isn’t quite enough: “that’s the least we can ask of our memoirists,” Hillary Kelly writes. “What she is marvellous at is admitting, sans self-recrimination.”

An allegorical wooden horse from the Homeric Age, a green light (ominous and symbolic) from the 1920s, and other Facebook Marketplace listings throughout the ages.

Justin Kobylka has been breeding ball pythons for more than 20 years and is considered a trendsetter in the field. He gained a wider audience in 2016, after he opened up an egg to find a white snake patterned with three orange smiley faces along its body. He had been trying to produce a “dreamsicle”—a pure-white ball python with splotches of tangerine—but most of the circular markings on this snake had two eyes and a grin. A video that showed Kobylka turning the baby python from side to side to display its distinctive motif went viral, and the story of the “emoji python” was covered across media outlets. Read more about the competitive world of collecting and breeding designer ball pythons: http://nyer.cm/Ahmi17V

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