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Rachel Aviv on Writing About Moms
The people closest to us can sometimes be the hardest to see clearly—and mothers might be the blurriest. “The mother-daughter relationship, perhaps more than any other, seems to defy...
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What Scientists Learned by Eavesdropping on Thousands of People
The EAR can’t prove any of these theories—it can only listen. Mehl co-created it, in the nineties, to gauge who people talked to, how often they talked to them,...
The Simple Genius of Jon Klassen
Everything is watching you. The snakes, of course, along with the birds, bears, turtles, fish, rabbits, and horses. Also: the tables, the chairs, the bridges, the tents, the rocks,...
David Wain’s Wet Hot American Comedy
There are two ways to describe what “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” is about. One is, What if someone actually tried to use their celebrity sex pass?...
The Summer When Everyone Wanted a Good, Good Night
I find it hard to even write the words “DJ Earworm.” I’ve tried to say the word “mashup” out loud alone while I’m typing, and it feels as though...
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Marriage Plot
Celebrities get engaged all the time; sometimes they even go through with the wedding. Dua Lipa and Callum Turner recently got married at a town hall in London and...
Iconic Presidents Incognito
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Eight Great American Novels
You know what they say: a semiquincentennial happens only once, but great American literature is forever. Whether we can all agree on what makes a novel a great American...
At Pacha New York, an Infamous Night Club Is Reborn
By the time Rampa arrived on the decks, a bit before 1 a.m., the crowd was congealing into a congenial blur: serious dancers with their eyes closed, celebratory guys...
