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Madrid Dispatch: Spain is Different [by Kathleen Heil]
Last night was the World Cup semi-final match of Germany vs. Spain, and, after a week of listening to the little boy on my block shout «¡ESPAÑA! ¡ESPAÑA! ¡ESPAÑA! ¡Es que somos los mejores!»…
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Cool Dad by Joan Vorderbruggen
In the next hundred years, scientists will discover a resiliency gene that explains why some of us don't just survive certain hells, we thrive in their aftermaths. They may find it's entirely genetic, though…
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TAM 8 [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Traveling a lot this month. Right now I'm off to The Amazing Meeting! in Las Vegas. I'll give a talk and be on a panel and I'll be going to a lot of…
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Tom Clark on “Dover Beach”
See Tom Clark's take on Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," one of the world's great poems — and among the most parodied. — DL
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Auden’s Ear for Yeats (David Yezzi)
Here's a thought I had rereading Yeats's slightly curious and gorgeous-sounding late poem "Long-Legged Fly." I am pasting it below, so you can judge for yourself. If you are game for this miniature experiment…
