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Sam Taylor What Inspired the Summer of Love?
Mostly drugs.
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St. Francis Elevator Ride How Twin Peaks Invented Modern Television
As a long-belated Season 3 arrives, a look back at the immeasurably influential series
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Gizem Vural Poet on the Edge
Indiana-born, Twitter-savvy, and Millennially mischievous, Patricia Lockwood taps into the temper of the times.
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Image Comics Beowulf Is Back!
What’s behind the running pop-culture engagement with the epic poem?
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Bettmann / Getty A Saint for Difficult People
From bohemian to radical to Catholic activist, Dorothy Day devoted her life to the poor, however unlovable.
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Nigel Buchanan The Ninja Cure for Anxiety
The self-medicating effects of extreme-fitness TV
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Jason Raish The First Troll
The wicked vendettas of Thomas De Quincey, the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Zohar Lazar When the World Is an Arcade
The psychogeography of Pokémon Go
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Diego Patiño Donald Trump, Sex Pistol
The punk-rock appeal of the GOP nominee
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Nick Iluzada How British Soccer Became Must-See TV
The new season of the Premier League will be the best ever.
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UCLA Library Special Collections / Flickr Black Flag’s Psychic Imprint
A look at the punk band’s cultural impact, 30 years after its last live show
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Oliver Barrett The Electric Surge of Miles Davis
Between 1968 and ’75, he plugged into the musical zeitgeist and opened his music to distortion and groove-based repetition, either transcending or repudiating his roots in acoustic jazz.
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Mike Roach / Zuffa / Getty The Rise and Fall of Ultimate Fighter Conor McGregor
A fantastically entertaining—and bankable—athlete shies away from the chance to reclaim MMA glory.
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André Carrilho The Greatest Poet Alive
The feral genius of Australia’s Les Murray
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Ian Wright The Resurrections of David Bowie
What made him one of rock’s most potent lyricists
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP Missing Jon Stewart
The new Daily Show host, Trevor Noah, is smooth and charming, but he hasn’t found his edge.
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R. Kikuo Johnson Marc Maron’s Brilliant Mistakes
The star podcaster’s success is rooted in his early-career failure and despair.
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Matt Taylor The Double Life of John le Carré
How a con-artist father and treason in MI6 created the bard of the Cold War
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Barry Blitt Twilight of the Headbangers
How long can the legends of heavy metal keep on rocking?
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Zohar Lazar How Naked People Took Over Reality Television
The curious boom of broadcasted genitalia
