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  "path": "/issues/2026-6-13/the-air-mail-diary",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  A whole-earth catalogue.\n\n##### Bears are attacking the Japanese! Snakes are attacking the Chinese! And other strange stories from around the globe …\n\nBy George Kalogerakis\n\nAs the **Trump** catastrophe—noxious! inhumane! global!—continues to soil and degrade everything it can, from the **National Mall** to the **Middle East** to **Madison Square Garden,** we remain steadfast, scanning the planet for strange, surprising, generally less appalling stories. Happily, they still exist. For instance:\n\nConceptual artist **Maurizio Cattelan’s** _Comedian_ —you might remember: a banana duct-taped to a wall—has been stolen from the Pompidou-Metz museum in eastern **France.** Just last year, a visitor to the museum ate the banana, though “guards quickly intervened and stuck up a replacement,” said _Le Monde._ (The piece, which was first exhibited—and, as it happens, eaten—at READ ON",
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