From the monthly archives:
January 2010
At once rarefied and accessible, with a singular visual style that’s impossible to carbon-date, Wings has earned its place alongside the likes of The Seventh
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The country’s leading think-tank describes the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem facing China. The surplus of bachelors — known as
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Paging David Foster Wallace:
A huge Royal Caribbean liner docked 60 miles away from Haiti’s devastation in the heavily guarded resort of Labadee, and it
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Marriage is Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell standing side by side in the closing scene of His Girl Friday, nattering on with the same jollity
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During her class in the prison, Professor Richards walked a fine line between energizing her students with the demands of real scholarship and scaring them
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In any society, he maintained, “the purpose of a myth is to provide a logical model capable of overcoming a contradiction.”
As he saw it,
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I’ve had many wonderful students at Yale and Columbia, bright, thoughtful, creative kids whom it’s been a pleasure to talk with and learn from. But …
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Put some distance between you and your Master Card; don’t let your Iphone make the rules. You don’t have to buy their language. It already
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