In light of her own family’s experience during the Holocaust, Judith Hertog considers her ethical responsibilities in today’s world.
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A Childhood in Cars
How one young man cut against the grain of American masculinity and freed himself from car culture.
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A Woman’s Work: The Outside Story
Carolita Johnson catalogues her efforts to maintain her appearance from about 1970 to 2018.
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Swipe White
Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.
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Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone?
Inside music journalism post-2008 recession, and how media consumption in the 21st century offers a road map for the continuation of the once-robust medium.
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Memory and the Lost Cause
An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.
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The Science of Dreaming
Science journalist Alice Robb on why we need to take our dreams seriously.
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A Portrait of the Mother as a Young Girl
Marlene Adelstein finds herself transported back in time and consciousness via an inherited painting.
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Regarding Joan Miró
How can the life of a famous surrealist painter be so drabbly predictable?
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Take Script, Add Snow
The psychology behind America’s obsession with Hallmark Christmas movies.