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Bob Dylan Always Gives the Camera What It Wants
A new ad campaign for the fashion brand Celine reveals the 81-year-old troubadour’s hidden talent.
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What on Earth Is a BORG?
Many college students seem to love this alcohol-heavy concoction. College officials, not so much.
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Poem: form
The poet, like countless others precariously employed in higher education, faces yet another broke summer. In Eckes’s poem, two forms…
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Judge John Hodgman on Introducing Your Children to Swearing
A dispute about a joke-a-day calendar leads to a surprise ruling on childhood exposure to profanity.
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An Artist Returns After a ‘Long Wilderness’
Claudette Johnson emerged in Thatcher-era England as a prominent Black feminist, only to fall into obscurity. Now, she’s having her…
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The Comforting, Cheesy Charm of Chicken Doria
This Japanese answer to a gratin conjures bliss with whatever is already on hand.
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When Bystanders Step Between the Police and Black Men
You’ve seen the videos of deadly encounters. What effect can a witness have?
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Can I Use My Adopted Child’s DNA to Find His Biological Parents?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on protecting a child’s medical privacy while helping them learn about their past.
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Poem #1022
When the cold optics of domination are left unchallenged, the dead die twice. The cruel euphemism of profit and the…
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Judge John Hodgman on Bagpipe School
Should a family be sentenced to a vacation at Gaelic College?