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Women We Read This Week

A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Caty Enders’ “There Are No Pythons Here,” in Outside When the Florida Wildlife Commission announced…
SOURCE:Vela Mag
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1032 words)

Amigos

In Havana, the Line Between Source and Friend Is Always Moving Photo by Jason Florio If there was one thing Sandra knew well, it was hair. She knew hair from root to split end. In beauty school, she…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6274 words)

The Queasy Question: On Rick Alverson's film 'The Comedy' by by Merve Emre

FOR MANY INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS today, “Most Walked-Out Film at Sundance 2012” is a perverse badge of honor, and Rick Alverson's deceptively titled The Comedy wears it with pride. That…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (475 words)

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SOURCE:t.co

LRB · Emily Witt · Diary: Online Dating

I am not usually comfortable in a bar by myself, but I had been in San Francisco for a week and the apartment I sublet had no chairs in it, just a bed and a couch. My friends in town were married or…
AUTHOR:Emily Witt
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3766 words)

Origins of a Murder

1. The boy wears sweatpants the color of a Louisiana lake; later, the police report will note them as blue, though in every description his mother gives thereafter she will always insist on…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4701 words)

Roger loves Chaz

Does that sound too dramatic? You were not there. She was there every day, visiting me in the hospital whether I knew it or not, becoming an expert on my problems and medications, researching…
PUBLISHED: July 17, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3774 words)

Federer as Religious Experience

Correction Appended Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, as you watch the…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 20, 2006
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6620 words)

Julia Cooke: Cuban Zombies and Disappearing Acts

What can we learn about Cuba from zombie movies and escape ploys?Image from Flickr via Beach650 By Julia Cooke The setting is indelibly Havana: Glimmering turquoise water, ramshackle raft, and behind…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1639 words)
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