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Smack Talk, and Other News

The wry, D.I.Y. branding of heroin. Photo: Graham Macindoe, via Wired In celebration of its many contributions to arts and letters, Boston has approved a plan to turn a section of the city into the...

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No One Can Draw Runners, and Other News

A Greek vase with runners at the panathenaic games, ca. 530 BC. “Picture a person running. You’re probably picturing [it] wrong. It’s okay, you wouldn’t be alone. It turns out that artists have been...

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Take My Breath Away, and Other News

A still from Top Gun, 1986. Rivka Galchen on Kafka (or rather, his biography): “It has been said of Kafka’s work many times that the thing to remember is that it is funny. Kafka was known to laugh...

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The Bleared White Visage of a Sunless Winter Day, and Other News

Karl Hagemeister, Havelufer mit Kahn im Schneetreiben, 1895. Which Thomas Hardy novel is the bleakest? A data-driven study looks at such criteria as “bleak events” (unrequited love, grinding poverty,...

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Mourning the Striped Pig, and Other News

Time was you could find this fella on newsstands, getting sloshed.Fact: the American newspapers and gazettes of the nineteenth century had names that absolutely trounced their present-day counterparts...

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Take Me to the Burger King Spa

One way to spend your free time.I read that a Burger King franchise in Helsinki has opened an in-store sauna, serving Cokes and fries to visitors as they sweat it out, and my first thought was: I want...

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Discovering Your Sonic Brand, and Other News

That’s your own personal sound, man.I’ve spent thirty painstaking years building my personal brand from the ground up: a signature blend of synthetic microfibers and dried-out pipe tobacco, shot...

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We Don’t Really Know Anything About Anything, and Other News

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Girl with a Book, ca. 1875.William Trevor, an Irish writer who saw the short-story form as a chance to perfect “the art of the glimpse,” has died at eighty-eight. “His...

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Great Moments in Literacy: The American Library Association

Look for a new cartoon by Sara each morning this week.Sara Lautman is a cartoonist who lives in Baltimore. Her sketchbooks are on Instagram and her most recent collection is Ghost Sex.

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Smack Talk, and Other News

The wry, D.I.Y. branding of heroin. Photo: Graham Macindoe, via Wired In celebration of its many contributions to arts and letters, Boston has approved a plan to turn a section of the city into the...

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No One Can Draw Runners, and Other News

A Greek vase with runners at the panathenaic games, ca. 530 BC. “Picture a person running. You’re probably picturing [it] wrong. It’s okay, you wouldn’t be alone. It turns out that artists have been...

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Take My Breath Away, and Other News

A still from Top Gun, 1986. Rivka Galchen on Kafka (or rather, his biography): “It has been said of Kafka’s work many times that the thing to remember is that it is funny. Kafka was known to laugh...

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The Bleared White Visage of a Sunless Winter Day, and Other News

Karl Hagemeister, Havelufer mit Kahn im Schneetreiben, 1895. Which Thomas Hardy novel is the bleakest? A data-driven study looks at such criteria as “bleak events” (unrequited love, grinding poverty,...

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Mourning the Striped Pig, and Other News

Time was you could find this fella on newsstands, getting sloshed. Fact: the American newspapers and gazettes of the nineteenth century had names that absolutely trounced their present-day counterparts...

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Take Me to the Burger King Spa

One way to spend your free time. I read that a Burger King franchise in Helsinki has opened an in-store sauna, serving Cokes and fries to visitors as they sweat it out, and my first thought was: I want...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Discovering Your Sonic Brand, and Other News

That’s your own personal sound, man. I’ve spent thirty painstaking years building my personal brand from the ground up: a signature blend of synthetic microfibers and dried-out pipe tobacco, shot...

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We Don’t Really Know Anything About Anything, and Other News

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Girl with a Book, ca. 1875. William Trevor, an Irish writer who saw the short-story form as a chance to perfect “the art of the glimpse,” has died at eighty-eight. “His...

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Great Moments in Literacy: The American Library Association

Look for a new cartoon by Sara each morning this week.Sara Lautman is a cartoonist who lives in Baltimore. Her sketchbooks are on Instagram and her most recent collection is Ghost Sex.

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