The art of sandwich-making requires “tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”
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How the Sandwich Consumed Britain
To perfect a culinary staple as ubiquitous and timeless as the sandwich “is a question of using tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”
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Will Podcasts and Video Journalism Make Our Syntax Less Rich?
The days of the long, sinuous, multi-clause sentence might be numbered.
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The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence
Writing has made our syntax richer and more complex — and also increasingly distinct from spoken language.
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Inside the All-Consuming World of Paw Patrol
How six animated pups conquered the psyche of the toughest demographic out there: preschoolers.
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I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural
On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.
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Unreal Estate: A Reading List About Our Shifting Vision of Home
In an age of economic and political instability, what do the spaces we dwell in say about us?
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McMansion, USA
How the emblem of mainstream economic success came to represent the fragility of 21st-century consumer culture.
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Misogyny, Translated
The first woman translator of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ subtly unpacks the politics of the poem — and of the male translators that preceded her.
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Everyone Should Fear What Happened to the Gothamist Sites
Former LAist editor-in-chief Julia Wick writes on the power of local journalism — and the dangers it’s currently facing.