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Mrs. Dalloway's Midlife Crisis
Virginia Woolf's wild run of creativity in her 40s included writing her masterpiece on the terrors and triumphs of middle age.
6 min |
September 2025
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MY FATHER'S WORK
In August 2000, when I was 2 years old, my mother put me in a maroon velvet dress and stuck foam earplugs in my ears.
10+ min |
September 2025
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The Light of a Man-Made Star
In 2003, the photographer Michael Light published 100 Suns, a collection of government photographs of nuclear-weapons tests conducted from 1945 to 1962.
1 min |
August 2025
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It Has Pockets!
How Claire McCardell changed women's fashion
10 min |
August 2025
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Lamentations-A short story
It was March when I received the news that Harold had died in one of his caves.
10+ min |
August 2025
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MY PERSONAL WAR ON PLASTIC
What happened when I tried to eliminate it from my family's life
10 min |
August 2025
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American Insomnia
Tossing and turning through our national sleep crisis
10+ min |
August 2025
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THE WARRIOR MYTH
THE WARRIOR MYTH What Pete Hegseth doesn't understand about soldiers
8 min |
August 2025
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The High Art of Pro Wrestling
Yes, it's fiction. So is Moby Dick.
9 min |
August 2025
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The Expatriate
Joseph Kurihara had faith in America. It didn't have faith in him.
10+ min |
August 2025
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How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing
At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.
10 min |
August 2025
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The President's Weapon
Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?
10+ min |
August 2025
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Vonnegut and the Bomb
How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke
10+ min |
August 2025
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Damn You All to Hell!
How Hollywood taught a generation to fear nuclear + catastrophe
10 min |
August 2025
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THE NEW ARMS RACE
As American power recedes, South Korea and even Japan may pursue the bomb.
10+ min |
August 2025
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SEXTING WITH GEMINI
Why did Google's supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?
10 min |
August 2025
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NUCLEAR ROULETTE
The only way to win is to stop playing.
8 min |
August 2025
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Fast Times and Mean Girls
What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence
9 min |
July 2025
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The TALENTED MR.VANCE
J. D. Vance could have brought the country's conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.
10+ min |
July 2025
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THE WORLD’S HARDEST BLUFFING GAME
Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?
8 min |
July 2025
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WITNESS
Sin and redemption in America's death chambers
10+ min |
July 2025
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The Clones Are Here
Faster horses, superior cattle, immortal pets the big business of animal cloning
10+ min |
July 2025
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The Canonization of James Joyce
Richard Ellmann's biography made the novelist a hero to generations of readers and scholars.
10 min |
July 2025
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FEUDALISM IS OUR FUTURE
We may already be entering anew dark age.
10+ min |
July 2025
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When Mick Jagger Met the King of Zydeco
Clifton Chenier pioneered a new kind ofblues—and changed rock history, too.
9 min |
July 2025
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THE Tracy Anderson WAY
INSIDE THE EXCLUSIVE, OBSESSIVE, SURPRISINGLY LITIGIOUS WORLD OF LUXURY FITNESS
10+ min |
July 2025
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The Secret to Happiness
Alison Bechdel has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace.
9 min |
June 2025
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HOW THE CHICKEN SANDWICH CONQUERED AMERICA
The sun is setting on burger dominance.
5 min |
June 2025
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When Buckley Met Baldwin
In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn't go quite as Buckley hoped.
10+ min |
June 2025
The Atlantic
The Not at All Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow's biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
10+ min |