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Between subjective experience and the things most people can accept as objective facts, there yawns
Empathy is the basic stuff of human connection. It’s how we hear and are heard by one another. It’s
In the years before the election of the impossible president rent forever the very fabric of being,
Such and such “doesn’t suffer fools gladly”. That phrase has always bugged me a bit. It’s like someo
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This morning on the way to the school bus, my almost 11 year old son was explaining to me that if yo
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A "grow light" for humans that cooks a guy's face. A pharmaceutical mist that puts you in the right
I recently spent several hours on a transatlantic flight zooming in and out of the interactive map o
Gary Shteyngart's new novel Lake Success is the evil doppelgänger of the Simon and Garfunkel song 'A
Why would two intelligent women running a hugely successful podcast at one of the most respected stu
Does it ever strike you as odd that we manage to inhabit two completely different realities at once?
As Alexander Hamilton put it, the American Experiment puts to the test the question “of whether soci
Did you ever see the 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland? Where the caterpillar, voiced by ac
I have a confession to make: Literary magazines have always kind of intimidated me. Give me an 800 p
THIS IS CONGO, a new documentary film, attempts to wrap its mind around the incomprehensible realiti
My grandmother used to tell a story about coming to America from Poland. How she sang God Bless Amer
When I started college at New York University in 1990, nobody lived in Brooklyn. Brooklyn was the da
The impulse to make art is with us from childhood. It’s the desire to play. To say “hey! Look what
The other day I was at a kid’s birthday party and a fellow dad was joking that “When we were kids, i
