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Welcome to the lifelong struggle of dealing with our creator’s sickest joke—putting rotting bones in our eating holes.

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The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

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Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural touchstone for Latin Americans of every generation thereafter. At one point, ...

Is a River Alive?, by Robert Macfarlane (Norton). Rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada provide the settings for this elegant travelogue, which asks whether a natural entity, such as a river, can be ...

My father worked nights as the desk attendant at a cheap hotel downtown. It was a thankless job behind bulletproof glass, which was all he had to shield him from demented drunks and screeching ...

Victor over Athens in the Peloponnesian War: six letters.

Out of interest, could this be the best beginning to the sixth chapter of any book, by anyone, ever? The girl with the stringy blond hair over her shoulders and the trading beads and the black ...