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June 26, 2024
MagazineAdam Nayman
Last Summer Is a Marvel of Toxic Lyricism
Catherine Breillat’s provocative new film is like a watercolor dabbed with cyanide.
June 15, 2022
Michael Tomasky
“I Want These Attacks to Stop”: Mallory McMorrow on Fighting Right-Wing Fearmongering
The Michigan state senator’s floor speech against Republican attacks went viral. Now she’s determined to turn the state blue.
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December 14, 2015
Christopher Oldstone-Moore
Survival of the Scruffiest
Charles Darwin and the evolutionary mystery of the beard.
February 5, 2014
Alice Robb
Want to Look Older and More Aggressive? Grow a Beard
But don’t think it’ll help you with the ladies

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