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Doonesbury artist Garry Trudeau at the 1996 Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado
Scott Bradfield
The Great American Adventure of Reading Doonesbury
G.B. Trudeau often skewered politicians at their stupidest. But his primary subject has always been the range and variety of everyday life.
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How Edgar Allan Poe Mined His Own Misery
In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.
Malcolm Ferguson
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Are Fewer Children the Future?
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Are Fewer Children the Future?
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Are Fewer Children the Future?
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Are Fewer Children the Future?
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Timothy Noah
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Why Does the World Put Up With the Dollar?
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Video Podcasts Are the New Late Night
Interview shows like Amy Poehler’s Good Hang are taking the place of traditional TV.
Author Sigrid Nunez photographed at Minetta Triangle Park, NYC
MagazineMaggie Doherty
The Liberated Women of Sigrid Nunez’s New York
The best stories in It Will Come Back to You could only take place in a big city, where women escape social conventions.
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