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The Guantánamo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Mohamedou Ould Slahi at Guantánamo Courtesy of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mohamedou Ould Slahi began to tell his story in 2005. Over the course of several months, the Guantánamo…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1331 words)

The Case of the Mormon Historian

A box of old photos belonging to Michael Quinn at his home. Daryl Peveto/Luceo Images for Slate. © 2012 One Sunday in February of 1993, Michael Quinn wa
PUBLISHED: Nov. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9329 words)

Confessions of an Ex-Mormon

I DON’T REMEMBER the missionaries’ names, only that one was blond and one was dark, one was from Oregon and one was from Utah. They arrived at our house on secondhand bicycles carrying…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1109 words)

You Can’t Handle the Truth About Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing had the highest stakes of any television he's writtenPhotograph courtesy NBC Studios. In the first play Aaron Sorkin ever got produced, a one-act called
PUBLISHED: June 22, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2759 words)
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False Fronts in the Language Wars

The New Yorker cover May 14, 2012 Nature or nurture. Love it or leave it. If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit. If you didn’t already know that euphonious dichotomies are usually phony dichotomies, you…
PUBLISHED: May 31, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3404 words)

The New York Observers

Girls (HBO, Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET) is an exceptional piece of American art, as witty as The Women, richer in raunch than
PUBLISHED: April 13, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6050 words)

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How an Irish setter helped my family get through the Bosnian War.

An Irish setter The following essay is excerpted from the latest issue of Granta, the quarterly magazine of new writing. It is available online only in Slate. To read the complete…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3378 words)

The racist Christmas tradition Dutch people have begun fighting about.

Two men dressed as Zwarte Piet for the Dutch celebration of Sinterklaas.Photograph by Toussaint Kluiters/AFP/Getty Images. As a newcomer to the Netherlands, I do many things wrong. I forget to bring…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 14, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (761 words)
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