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The Summer We Didn’t Have

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An email came at the end of my work day, announcing that I’d won a prestigious, once-in-a-lifetime research grant to spend the summer in...
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2019: The Year in Carly Rae Jepsen

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In February 2019 Carly Rae Jepsen released a single, “Now That I Found You.”  It’s a high-energy dance number that conjures a relationship whose...
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Archival Crying

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In 1860, Herman Melville, 40 and with all of his published novels behind him, took a trip to San Francisco.  A lifetime before a...
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Getting Us Through: Small Talk

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Once in grad school I read an essay by a distinguished political philosopher.  She was arguing for the value of common politeness in capital-P...
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The Top 10 Fag Hags of Henry James: A Definitive Ranking

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Henry James numbers among the nineteenth-century’s leading dinner party guests and, not coincidentally, its worst playwrights.  Had he been born in the late twentieth...
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Of Mothers and Migraines; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Read Oliver Sacks

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My mother gives me a headache.  It would appear, also, that she gave me headaches.  When I spoke with a neurologist last winter about...
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Your Favorite Band Sucks

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Few pleasures are as intoxicating as arguing with the people you love.  I’m not talking about fighting--not about conflict nor heartbreak nor even genuine...
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This Fall’s 21 Best Pumpkin Spice Think Pieces, Ranked

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21.  Men Explain Pumpkin Spice to Me 20. Now That Pumpkin Spice Is Legal, What’s Next? 19. That Extra Half a Spice, by Victoria Beckham 18. Millennials, Millennials,...
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David Brooks Writes a Yelp Review of the New Thai Restaurant

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The new Thai restaurant, Pad Basil, is a great and searing contribution to the dining options on Tenth Avenue. It is a mind-altering account...
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Holiday Baking for Neglected Children

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At thirteen I made my first pie crust.  Channeled from the back matter of Martha Stewart’s Pies and Tarts, it was a basic pâte...
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