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Beauty and Infidelity, Part III: The Other Woman

 “The camera served Tereza as both a mechanical eye through which to observe Tomás’s mistress, and a veil by which to conceal her face from her.” —The Unbearable…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2384 words)

Against Joie de Vivre by Phillip Lopate by Phillip Lopate

Reprinted with permission from the author. Lopate has two essay collections coming out in February, "Portrait Inside My Head" and "To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction," both from…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7864 words)

Bottom Line: My View of Corporate Collapse

Before the hard times came the flush times. They always do. In the summer of 2007 the textbook company hired a fresh group of editors to work on a series of high school literature textbooks. We…
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LENGTH: 15 minutes (3863 words)

No Self-Respecting Woman Would Go Out Without Make Up

For some reason, one of the most emailed articles from the NYT was an article about whether women should or should not wear make up.  "New York Times? Sounds progressive."  Yes.  Seven…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5174 words)

The Science of Sex Abuse

With civil commitment, child-pornography offenders can be imprisoned indefinitely, lest they molest children when released. Illustration by Noma Bar/Dutch Uncle.
PUBLISHED: Jan. 14, 2013
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7743 words)

Where the Bass Never Stops

Dancing til daylight with Brooklyn's hyper-friendly, ketamine-fueled, ever-eclectic house music party people. I emerge from the L at the Montrose stop along with several other people. The sidewalk is…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5270 words)

Escorting Stacy

When a gay male escort receives his first client request from a woman, things are only just starting to get bizarre. I am standing in the St. Regis hotel lobby and while it is not a particularly hot…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5350 words)

Why Go Out? by Sheila Heti

Why Go Out? by Sheila Heti This lecture was one of three lectures delivered at Trampoline Hall in New York on March 22, 2006. (The event doubled as a launch event for Sheila Heti's novel, Ticknor.)…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2751 words)
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Semi-Charmed Life

Once, many moons ago, I spent a month in Iceland with too little money and nothing to slow a march of days that seemed already to be getting much too short. It was September, and each morning and…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 14, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4777 words)
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