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Peter Nicholls Anne Garréta’s Very Different Sort of Confessional Writing
The experimental novelist’s newly translated work tackles assumptions about the genre—with surprising results.
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Michelle Kondrich / The Atlantic The Unfit President
Unlike George W. Bush and Barack Obama before him, Trump doesn’t seem to care about working out or eating healthy.
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James Walton Do People Need Small Talk to Be Happy?
In one study, college students who had substantive conversations were more content than their peers who exchanged mere pleasantries. But don’t write off chitchat just yet.
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James Walton The Science of Beer Goggles
Alcohol makes people impulsive, vain, and uncharitable—and it just might help them maintain committed relationships.
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The Kidcasts Are Coming
Back in March, I asked: Where are all the kidcasts? Podcasts had been proliferating, and children learn by listening, so…
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Deep Velllum The Challenge of Genderless Characters
What a 30-year-old novel reveals about hidden biases
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Studio Photography / Corbis Where Are All the Kidcasts?
Kids learn from podcasts, so why aren’t adults making more for them?
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Frederick Douglass in The Atlantic
Like a president on a dollar bill, the bust of Douglass rests, regal, before a backdrop of newsprint: …
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Marco Goran A Strategic Guide to Swearing
The professional benefits of using curse words
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Jenny Westerhoff Man Booker Shortlist 2015: Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life
Reviewing the first of the six books on the literary prize’s shortlist.
