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Monday, October 12

Adam Gopnik:

In the postwar years, America was unduly blessed by its art dealers, who offered an open door to the avant-garde, and by its fashion magazines, in which a handful of photographers managed to turn fashion pictures into another kind of high art. Chief among them was Irving Penn, who . . . (747 words)

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Hendrik Hertzberg:

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Sunday, August 30

Hendrik Hertzberg:

Of the four sons of Joseph P. Kennedy, only the youngest and least promising was granted a long life and a peaceful death. The others were heroes and martyrs: Joseph, Jr., naval aviator, killed in action over Europe on August 12, 1944, aged twenty-nine; John, President of the United . . . (687 words)

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Robin Givhan:

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Monday, March 9

Robin Givhan:

When the history of this White House and its East Wing occupant comes to be written, it will be impossible to ignore the role played by fashion. Because of Michelle Obama’s affection for independent designers with their own eccentric vision, and her willingness to go sleeveless in the most tradition . . . (530 words)

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Malcolm Gladwell: The sociology of drinking.

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Monday, February 8

Malcolm Gladwell: The sociology of drinking.

In 1956, Dwight Heath, a graduate student in anthropology at Yale University, was preparing to do field work for his dissertation. He was interested in land reform and social change, and his first choice as a study site was Tibet. But six months before he was to go there he . . . (1026 words)

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Patrick Radden Keefe: The decades-long battle to catch an arms dealer.

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Monday, February 1

Patrick Radden Keefe: The decades-long battle to catch an arms dealer.

Palacio de Mifadil, one of several homes owned by the wealthy Syrian arms merchant Monzer al-Kassar, is a white marble mansion overlooking the resort town of Marbella, on the southern coast of Spain. Surrounded by lush grounds and patrolled by three mastiffs, it has a twelve-car garage and . . . (1046 words)

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Jhumpa Lahiri:

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Monday, November 16

Jhumpa Lahiri:

My father, seventy-eight, is a methodical man. For thirty-nine years, he has had the same job, cataloguing books for a university library. He drinks two glasses of water first thing in the morning, walks for an hour every day, and devotes almost as much time, before bed, to . . . (1274 words)

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Rivka Galchen: “The Entire Northern Side Was Covered with Fire.”

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Monday, June 7

Rivka Galchen: “The Entire Northern Side Was Covered with Fire.”

People say no one reads anymore, but I find that’s not the case. Prisoners read. I guess they’re not given much access to computers. A felicitous injustice for me. The nicest reader letters I’ve received—also the only reader letters I’ve . . . (2909 words)

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Julia Ioffe: The Russian teen-ager behind Chatroulette.

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Monday, May 10

Julia Ioffe: The Russian teen-ager behind Chatroulette.

Andrey Ternovskiy, an eighteen-year-old high-school dropout from Moscow, has a variety of explanations for why he created the Web site Chatroulette.com. According to one story, he got bored talking to people he already knew on Skype; according to another, it was a fund-raising ploy for a . . . (4626 words)

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Adam Gopnik: Le Fooding, the French challenge to haute cuisine.

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Monday, March 29

Adam Gopnik: Le Fooding, the French challenge to haute cuisine.

I suppose I would have an easier time deciding if the Paris-based French food-guide-and-festival group that calls itself Le Fooding is going to be able to accomplish all that it has set out to accomplish—which seems to be nothing less than to save the . . . (4587 words)

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Gary Shteyngart: “Kokiri.”

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Monday, June 7

Gary Shteyngart: “Kokiri.”

June 1, Rome. Lucky diary! Undeserving diary! From this day forward, you will travel on the greatest adventure yet undertaken by a nervous, average man sixty-nine inches in height, a hundred and sixty pounds in heft, with a slightly dangerous body-mass index of 23.6. From this day forward . . . ( words)

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Raffi Khatchadourian: Julian Paul Assange, and WikiLeaks’ media insurgency.

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Monday, May 31

Raffi Khatchadourian: Julian Paul Assange, and WikiLeaks’ media insurgency.

The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in . . . ( words)

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Jerome Groopman: How do we know what chemicals are safe?

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Monday, May 24

Jerome Groopman: How do we know what chemicals are safe?

Bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, may be among the world’s most vilified chemicals. The compound, used in manufacturing polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, is found in plastic goggles, face shields, and helmets; baby bottles; protective coatings inside metal food containers; and composites and sealants used in dentistry . . . (5158 words)

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