At Serious Eats, Kat Kinsman analyzes America’s obsession with culinary appearances and makes the case for learning to measure food by other, non-visual standards.
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Happy Birthday, Joan Didion
“I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be.”
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Remembering the Female Voice of the Blues
Looking at Amanda Petrusich’s 2013 Oxford American magazine story about blues singer Bessie Smith.
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Speed-Dating in Shanghai: Finding a Mate at the ‘Love and Marriage Expo’
Looking for love in all the wrong places? Zheping Huang attempts to find a wife at the Love and Marriage Expo in Shanghai, China.
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Call and Response: Roxane Gay Reflects on Tragedy
Roxane Gay examines her own feelings on tragedy and atrocity and in doing so, helps us find compassion in grief and anger.
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The ’90s Soda that Nobody Cared About Until It Was Dead
Writing for The Believer in February, 2014, Michael Schulman explored one of the most dramatic and memorable failures in American branding: Coca-Cola’s OK Soda. Marketed to Gen X’ers in 1994, the OK Soda brand died by 1995, though its artifacts live on in collector circles and advertising lore.
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Are We Too Late to Save Antarctica?
On a cruise through Antarctica’s stunning (and endangered) landscapes, Julia Whitty observes the spectre of climate change from up close.
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Returning to a Simpler Cup of Coffee
“Cheap coffee is one of America’s most unsung comfort foods.”
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Coexisting With the Void: Simone Gorrindo on Chronic Pain
At Vela, Simone Gorrindo contemplates “the terrible thing that the slowness of pain gives you: time” in this meditation on how chronic illness affects the body and mind.
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Belly Chains on a Baby Bump: What It’s Like to Be Pregnant in Prison
“One woman [told me] that if she didn’t keep her shackles on, she wouldn’t be able to go to her appointment and [that] other women have been denied access to prenatal vitamins.”