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Mindy Aloff, Guest Author June 2-6
Drawing by Jorge Vargas This week we welcome Mindy Aloff as our guest author. Mindy's essays, reviews, and interviews on dancing, literature, film, and other cultural subjects have appeared in many periodicals in…
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Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman, Camerado
Reconciliation Word over all, beautiful as the sky!Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again,…
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Point Counterpoint: David Lehman and Amy Gerstler on Mad Men Season 7 Episode 7
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:05 PM David Lehman wrote: The Best Things in Life Are Free Casting Robert Morse as Bert Cooper, the firm’s senior partner, was an inspired move from…
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“Comparative Noise” [by Santa Frere-Jockstrap]
One day last week I spent the afternoon with my colleague Luke Malaise, downtown maven of the marvelously new and ugly. Wearing a black shirt buttoned to the top without a tie in his…
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Design? [by Amanda J. Bradley]
One thing that baffles me is the people who say they believe everything happens for a reason, but do not find the thought paralyzing. When something “character building” happens in my life, I want…
