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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)

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: 3 minutes (905 words)
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