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On Orange is the New Black and the Joy of Losing Your Self
There has maybe never been a generation whose members have been quite so aware of their individual self-hoods as the current 30ish-and-under set (you can call us Millennials, if you want to be a dick...
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Jeff Bezos: This Week’s Newspaper Jesus
Two newspaper sales made headlines last week. One—the purchase of the Washington Post by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—everyone has heard of by now. The other was not accompanied by such fanfare, but is a...
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The Problem of Modern Myth-Making
In Jorge Luis Borges’ celebration of The Thousand and One Nights, he laments that “while literary men [and women!] seem to have neglected their epic duties... the epic tradition has been saved for the...
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What Does Murderous Hate Ask of You?
You cannot extricate Sikhism from a single, defining question: what is demanded of you? It runs through the entire faith, but its genesis is probably the story of the panj pyare, one of the founding...
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Was It Worth It? The Gretzky Trade, 25 Years Later
Let’s all remember together.Twenty-five years ago, on August 9th, two important things happened in sports that weren’t actually supposed to happen that day. One was supposed to happen sooner, the other...
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The Minor Glories and Dank Humanity of Kiese Laymon
Almost exactly one year ago, as the Trayvon Martin case was unearthing the still-soiled roots of a supposedly “post-racial” United States, Gawker published an essay entitled “How To Slowly Kill...
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Japan’s New Warship and the Pacific Powder Keg
Sentences are like machines, in that some parts do more work than others. So when someone writes “Japan launched its largest warship since the end of World War II,” the part that comes after “the end...
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What Went Wrong This Week For ... Mild, Respectable Stances
Welcome to Well, That Sucked, our weekly compendium of exactly what it sounds like. Thrown in this week’s garbage: reasonable attitudes that even halfway-not-evil people should be able to get behind,...
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Just Getting By in a ‘Civilized Community’
“Frugal comfort” is what they called it in the Australian court in 1907. The judge, Henry Bournes Higgins, was hearing testimony about wages at Harvester Sunshine, a manufacturer of farm equipment and...
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The End of the Condo Boom is Nothing to Cheer
When economists and financial analysts start talking about a “Wile E. Coyote moment,” it may be time to start worrying about Canada’s housing markets. Of course, some observers have been worried for...
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Suehiro Maruo: The Perverse Decadence of Panorama Island
On May 15, 1932, a cabal of 11 youthfully reactionary naval officers stormed Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi’s residence. “If I could speak, you would understand,” he told them, to which the...
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The Scene Report #11: The End of Art
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Inside the Bikram Yoga Scandals: Bikram Choudhury’s Accuser Speaks
Bikram Yoga, arguably the largest yoga organization in the world, is famous for its grueling sequence of poses—26 postures that require students to backward bend into teardrop-shapes, or balance their...
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David Lavin’s Diminishing Library
Shelf Esteem is a weekly measure of the books on the shelves of writers, editors, and other word lovers, as told to Emily M. Keeler. This week’s shelf belongs to David Lavin, the president of the...
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This is No Way to Build a Country
When my great-grandfather came across the ocean—a Pacific passage that, three generations later, has been stripped of all detail to become a familial nugget of immigration folklore—he didn’t think he...
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The Hyperloop Ignores Our Real Transportation Problem
Three intriguing transportation technologies have floated past in the fog of headlines this month. First, South Korea unveiled an electric bus that is powered by a magnetic coil buried in the road....
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Will Paywalls Turn Us Into Newspaper Fanboys?
A bold prediction: Now that the Toronto Star, Canada’s most circulated newspaper, has joined the national dailies in instituting a paywall to—gasp!—make us pay for the news, digital news readers will...
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Please Don’t Make Me Buy a Pink Blue Jays Jersey
For two years, I’ve been looking for a Toronto Blue Jays shirt. I don’t need anything fancy: Just a tank top with the logo on it, something in breathable fabric because I sweat like an elderly rugby...
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Karl Marx, the Series!
While I sleep my iPhone works, accumulating email and twining Twitter threads, throbbing with update alerts for apps last updated only the day before. By seven o’clock it’s had enough and hits the...
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The Great Artisanal Pickle Shakedown
I was in Northern Ireland recently at this hotel-cum-cookery school, ostensibly to learn how to butcher a lamb. As a side project, the chef taught me how to make soda bread, that staple of Irish...
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