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EYES UP HERE
The New Yorker

EYES UP HERE

The perils and pleasures of a nice rack.

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May 27, 2024
A CRITIC AT LARGE SAY THE WORD
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A CRITIC AT LARGE SAY THE WORD

Why liberals struggle to defend liberalism.

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May 27, 2024
THE WORLD OF TELEVISION CASTOFFS
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THE WORLD OF TELEVISION CASTOFFS

REALITY-TV CONTESTANTS ARE BARELY PAID, AND THE EXPERIENCE CAN FEEL LIKE ABUSE. SHOULD THEY UNIONIZE?

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May 27, 2024
SHOUTS & MURMURS IDENTIFIED
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SHOUTS & MURMURS IDENTIFIED

A panel of scientific experts commissioned by NASA to study unidentified anomalous phenomena,” more widely known as UFOs, said Thursday that it found no evidence that any of the reported objects were extraterrestrial in origin.

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May 27, 2024
A Critic at Large - Off the Leash
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A Critic at Large - Off the Leash

The wacky and wonderful world of the Westminster Dog Show.

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May 20, 2024
A Campus in Crisis
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A Campus in Crisis

Dissent and defiance at Columbia's pro-Palestine protests.

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May 13, 2024
Consolation
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Consolation

Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before.

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May 20, 2024
THE INSTIGATOR
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THE INSTIGATOR

How Miranda July starts again.

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May 20, 2024
LOADED
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LOADED

We used to think the rich had a social function. What are they good for now?

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May 20, 2024
BLAME GAME
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BLAME GAME

“Baby Reindeer” and Under the Bridge.”

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May 20, 2024
OUT OF THE DARKNESS
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OUT OF THE DARKNESS

Zemlinsky, Schulhoff; and other neglected Jewish composers of Central Europe.

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May 20, 2024
BOOKS - FORGET IT
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BOOKS - FORGET IT

A neuropsychologist says that we're thinking about memory all wrong.

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May 20, 2024
PERSONAL HISTORY - TABULA RASA
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PERSONAL HISTORY - TABULA RASA

THE WORDLE PHILOSOPHY

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May 20, 2024
NEIGHBORLY
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NEIGHBORLY

My name is Margaret Jo Stinson, and I’d like to share my own perspective on this sort of thing.

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May 20, 2024
AMERICAN CHRONICLES - THE RIGHT TO HUG
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AMERICAN CHRONICLES - THE RIGHT TO HUG

Children are fighting to visit their parents in county jails.

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May 20, 2024
STUNTED
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STUNTED

\"The Fall Guy.\"

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May 13, 2024
MOTHERS OF US ALL
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MOTHERS OF US ALL

Paula Vogel's \"Mother Play,\" Shaina Taub's \"Suffs,\" and Amy Herzog's \"Mary Jane.\"

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May 13, 2024
PURE PLEASURE
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PURE PLEASURE

The \"Radical Optimism\" of Dua Lipa.

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May 13, 2024
PARADISE LOST
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PARADISE LOST

The search for a home that never was in Claire Messud's new novel.

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May 13, 2024
ORIGIN STORY
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ORIGIN STORY

What do we hope to learn from our prehistory?

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May 13, 2024
DEATH IN VENICE
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DEATH IN VENICE

At the Biennale, the past dignifies the weird, desperate present.

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May 13, 2024
WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT, YOU AND I
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WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT, YOU AND I

\"You'll never get away with this!\" Ultra Man vowed as he wriggled in his chains. \"You may destroy me, but you'll never destroy what I stand for!\"

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May 13, 2024
STONES OF CONTENTION
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STONES OF CONTENTION

The British Museum faces accusations of cultural theft-and actual theft.

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May 13, 2024
ARROW RETRIEVER
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ARROW RETRIEVER

I am an arrow retriever. After a batrows are costly and time-consuming to make. It seems like a terrible waste-and maybe even a sin―for an arrow to fall to the ground without hitting someone. Even if the arrow kills somebody, it can be reused to kill someone else. As Randolf the Scot famously said, \"Arrows don't grow on trees.\"

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May 13, 2024
READ THE LABEL
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READ THE LABEL

How psychiatric diagnoses create identities.

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May 13, 2024
NEW TRICKS
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NEW TRICKS

An animal trainer to the stars prepares a Great Dane for his film début.

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May 13, 2024
Beastly Matters
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Beastly Matters

Where the logic behind the concern for animal welfare begins and ends.

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May 06, 2024
TRIPLE FAULT
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TRIPLE FAULT

A meal is never just a meal in a Luca Guadagnino movie; each bite is a prelude to a kiss, every feast a form of foreplay.

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May 06, 2024
NIGHT MUSIC
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NIGHT MUSIC

“Stereophonic” and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” on Broadway.

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May 06, 2024
LITTLE OLD HER
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LITTLE OLD HER

Is Taylor Swift doing too much?

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May 06, 2024