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The Language Game
The New Yorker

The Language Game

Luis von Ahn turned Duolingo into the world's most popular education app. How much can it teach us?

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10+ mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
Brokeback Mountain in Manhattan
The New Yorker

Brokeback Mountain in Manhattan

Shouts & Murmurs

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3 mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - ARTISTS
Time

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - ARTISTS

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - ARTISTS

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10+ mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
HIGH ACHIEVERS
The New Yorker

HIGH ACHIEVERS

How taking drugs changed the science of the self.

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10+ mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
FERTILE GROUND
The New Yorker

FERTILE GROUND

The biotech startups that want to revolutionize human reproduction.

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10+ mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
THE GREAT INTERRUPTION
The New Yorker

THE GREAT INTERRUPTION

What was the English Revolution about, anyway?

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10+ mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
THE STUNTMAN
The New Yorker

THE STUNTMAN

At a certain point in his career, the artist D, perhaps because he could find no other way to make sense of his time and place in history, began to paint upside down. This is how I imagine it.

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10+ mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
WALK THE LINE
The New Yorker

WALK THE LINE

In Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies,” the Boston busing protests are murder.

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April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
GUIDING LIGHT
The New Yorker

GUIDING LIGHT

“Regretfully, So the Birds Are” and “White Girl in Danger.”

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5 mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
INSPIRATION, INC.
The New Yorker

INSPIRATION, INC.

How “creativity” was created.

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10+ mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
THE CRUNCH BUNCH
The New Yorker

THE CRUNCH BUNCH

How Taco Bell fired the first shot in the stunt-food wars.

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10+ mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
PARENT TRAPS
The New Yorker

PARENT TRAPS

“Beau Is Afraid” and “Everything Went Fine.”

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6 mins  |
April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
SECURITY BREACH
The New Yorker

SECURITY BREACH

Criminals presumed that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. Big mistake.

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April 24 - May 01, 2023 (Double Issue)
American Madness
The Atlantic

American Madness

Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.

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May 2023
Yohji Yamamoto – The Master
GQ US

Yohji Yamamoto – The Master

His peers are long gone. His craft is a vanishing art. But Yohji Yamamoto high fashion's master tailor is still making clothes for the ages.

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10+ mins  |
April - May 2023
Inside Donald Glover's Orchard of Ideas
GQ US

Inside Donald Glover's Orchard of Ideas

He changed the course of television with Atlanta and laid out a blueprint for a whole era of dark comedy. And now, out in Ojai, California, the multihyphenate star is preparing for the next phase of his career, building something even bigger and more ambitious that only he could have imagined.

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10+ mins  |
April - May 2023
Zonked
The New Yorker

Zonked

The exhausting history of fatigue.

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10+ mins  |
April 17, 2023
A Reporter at Large - The Bunker
The New Yorker

A Reporter at Large - The Bunker

A covert operation to solve the murder of one of Mexico's bravest investigative journalists.

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10+ mins  |
April 17, 2023
THE CURRENT CINEMA - TREAD SOFTLY
The New Yorker

THE CURRENT CINEMA - TREAD SOFTLY

\"Air\" and \"Paint.\"

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6 mins  |
April 17, 2023
POP MUSIC - AMAZING GRACE
The New Yorker

POP MUSIC - AMAZING GRACE

The other worldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun.

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5 mins  |
April 17, 2023
THE THEATRE - CORN COUNTRY
The New Yorker

THE THEATRE - CORN COUNTRY

\"Shucked\" premières on Broadway.

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5 mins  |
April 17, 2023
SHOUTS & MURMURS - MY HUSBAND'S SECRET LIFE
The New Yorker

SHOUTS & MURMURS - MY HUSBAND'S SECRET LIFE

You never really know someone. I had been married for only a year when I learned my husband’s secret.

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3 mins  |
April 17, 2023
ODDBALLS AND ODYSSEYS
The New Yorker

ODDBALLS AND ODYSSEYS

The road trips, revenge plots, and secret societies of Charles Portis.

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10+ mins  |
April 17, 2023
LETTER FROM ITEN -  A TRAGIC RUN
The New Yorker

LETTER FROM ITEN - A TRAGIC RUN

Why were two female running champions killed in Kenya's track capital?

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April 17, 2023
MUSICAL EVENTS - DE MINIMIS
The New Yorker

MUSICAL EVENTS - DE MINIMIS

Max Richter's doleful arpeggios, and Cassandra Miller's piercing lament.

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5 mins  |
April 17, 2023
ON TELEVISION - HELL ON WHEELS
The New Yorker

ON TELEVISION - HELL ON WHEELS

\"Beef,\" on Netflix.

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5 mins  |
April 17, 2023
ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY - SPECIAL SAUCE
The New Yorker

ANNALS OF GASTRONOMY - SPECIAL SAUCE

The Slutty Vegan burger chain puts the party in plant-based eating.

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April 17, 2023
AMERICAN CHRONICLES - FAMILY VALUES
The New Yorker

AMERICAN CHRONICLES - FAMILY VALUES

How a mother's love for her gay son started a revolution.

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April 17, 2023
EVENSONG
The New Yorker

EVENSONG

This is not an account of a love affair, and it is not the story of a religious conversion, although elements of both pertain. Of course, in life, which is full of surprises, it is hard to know what anything is.

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April 17, 2023
37 Minutes With... Paul Schrader
New York magazine

37 Minutes With... Paul Schrader

At Coterie, the Hudson Yards senior-living facility the screenwriter moved into to stay close to his wife.

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6 mins  |
April 10 - 23, 2023