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February 8, 2013
Sam Lipsyte
How to Write About Sex
The awkward art of the smitten word
February 4, 2013
Daniel D'Addario
Edward Muybridge: Grandfather of the GIF
How an eccentric photographer invented modern visual culture
January 31, 2013
Tom Carson
Citizen Alec
Forget Clooney. Alec Baldwin is America's most believable celebrity liberal. Here's why.
January 30, 2013
Walter Kirn
What Gun Owners Really Want
I’ve owned six guns. I’ve drawn them on bad guys. I want to be understood.
January 21, 2013
Alice Gregory
Is Friendship Better than Romance?
January 14, 2013
Nate Cohn
Has Nate Silver Forever Changed Statistics?
January 7, 2013
Adam Kirsch
No Solid Homeland—Mid-century Travels Through America
January 3, 2013
Victoria Beale
How to Be a Pseudo-Intellectual
December 24, 2012
Jackson Lears
Christmas Isn't Just Sentimental. It's Subversive, Too.
December 21, 2012
Noreen Malone
Santa's Little Spies: How Christmas Elves Turned Creepy
December 21, 2012
Linda Colley
Fantastic Voyage—The History of Travel Around the Earth
December 19, 2012
Geoffrey Cain
Shamans and Samsung: South Korea's Rise
December 18, 2012
Hillary Kelly
Hands On—Does Handwriting Matter?
December 7, 2012
George Loewenstein, Cass R. Sunstein
The Behavioral Economics of Christmas
November 22, 2012
Walter Kirn
Thanksgiving Is All About Family Guilt
November 16, 2012
Joshua Cohen
Boardwalk Vampires
November 15, 2012
Hadley Freeman
Sister Act—Pippa Middleton’s Gauzy World
November 13, 2012
Jennifer Kirby
Four Gorgeous Places in America That Should Be Protected Parks
November 12, 2012
Michael Kimmage
East is East and West is West: Al Afghani, Tagore, and Qichao
November 5, 2012
Dale M. Pollock
How Star Wars Nearly Destroyed George Lucas

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