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I Like Likable Characters
And I don’t like female novelists’ new method of dismissing other female writers.
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The Pedestrian–Cyclist Armistice
A bilateral, 10-point resolution to end the decades-long conflict between walkers and bikers.
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NBC Couldn’t Save Save Me
The latest attempt by a network to make a cable series failed, just like all the others.
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What’s a Vulcan?
Two Star Trek virgins boldly go where they’ve never gone before.
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The Gatsby Test
I’ve never read The Great Gatsby. But can I write a convincing high school essay about the novel after watching the film?
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Same Old Song? Not Exactly.
Many classic hits are secretly re-recorded. Can this be stopped?
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The Guerrilla Skirmishes of the Sexual Revolution
Fifty years ago this week, panty-seeking college boys lit the fuse on the 1960s.
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Your Bad Teacher Stories
Readers tell us their worst teacher stories using the hashtag #BadTeacher.
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What’s the Worst Thing a Teacher Ever Said to You?
We thanked the good teachers yesterday. Now let’s remember the ones we hated.
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“A Tranquilized Polar Bear Rising Through an Autumn Sky”
And other new songs about endangered species.
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The Last Buffalo Hunt
How America’s greatest taxidermist helped save the bison from extinction.
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The Great Gatsby: The Video Game
Can you reach the green light and attain the American Dream?
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Daily Rituals
“The pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again"—John Updike.
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Daily Rituals
Naked calisthenics, air baths, head stands, and other strange artistic habits.
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Breaking Bad
Have TV anti-heroes like Walter White made us believe we can understand real-life villains like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
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