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November 20, 2015
Navneet Alang
Don’t Delete Your Digital Past
What happens when we erase our online lives?
November 20, 2015
Jan Morris
“Did I Simply Think That I Should Behave Like a Girl?”
An excerpt from Jan Morris’s “Conundrum,” her classic memoir of gender transition.
November 19, 2015
Nathan Smith
When Patricia Highsmith Offered Gay Readers a Hopeful Ending
"The Price of Salt" was a dime-store paperback that became a groundbreaking work of lesbian culture.
November 19, 2015
Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed
Gandhi’s Unequal Justice in South Africa
The young lawyer fought the British empire for the rights of Indians, but not those of the Zulus he lived among.
November 19, 2015
Elaine Teng
Forget Adele—Enya has a new album!
November 19, 2015
Jordan G. Teicher
Is War Photography Beautiful or Damned?
In his new book, David Shields confronts the aesthetic of the newspaper's front-page photographs.
November 19, 2015
Jeff Nunokawa
Dream Catchers
How a 1950s professor built a gigantic database of thoughts and feelings.
November 18, 2015
Esther Breger
"Shouts and Murmurs" is Hollywood’s most prestigious personal blog.
November 18, 2015
Molly Crabapple
Drawn and Cornered
A young artist hustles her way through New York City.
November 18, 2015
Nausicaa Renner
Why We Trade Privacy for Facebook Likes
A legal theorist’s new book explains how our desires are woven into the surveillance state.
November 17, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Four months after a controversial story outing a media executive, Gawker Media has been nearly completely turned over.
November 17, 2015
Laura Marsh
100,000 women between 18 and 49 in Texas have attempted to self-induce an abortion.
November 17, 2015
Laura Marsh
Reading Germaine Greer's 30,000-word love letter to Martin Amis is like finding out your high school teacher was into BDSM.
November 17, 2015
Andrew Moore
The Last Homesteads
The arid landscape of the Great Plains is home to generations of pioneer homesteaders—and the ruins they left behind.
November 17, 2015
Megan Pugh
Who Invented the Shimmy?
The history of tap dancing in America is a joyful and troubled story.
November 16, 2015
Theodore Ross
I thought the America’s Test Kitchen guy lived in that house and that was his kitchen.
November 16, 2015
Elaine Teng
Who doesn't want more Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson in their life?
November 16, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Even ISIS supporters believed this Photoshopped image that made a Sikh Canadian look like a Paris terrorist.
November 16, 2015
Jeet Heer
Ridley Scott and George Lucas have regressed to producing fan fiction of their earlier works.
November 16, 2015
Laura Marsh
No, injustice wasn’t good for our careers, say Gloria Steinem and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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