Siddhartha Mahanta looks back at the small suburban starter house in Texas that helped his immigrant father redefine “home.”
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Other Favorite Crime
While the Sally Horner case gave ‘Lolita’ its main character, the Edward Grammer case gave the book an almost perfect murder.
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Women Are Really, Really Mad Right Now
Rebecca Traister talks about the revolutionary power of women’s anger.
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Remembering Pioneering Studio Engineer Geoff Emerick
Emerick engineered more than The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. He helped re-engineer the way music got made.
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The Return of the Face
Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?
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Banished
After passing a series of restrictive housing laws, Miami-Dade County faces an odd predicament: bands of nomadic sex offenders and a cat-and-mouse game to move them.
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Character Work
Alison Fields remembers the perils of junior high: fitting in, standing out, and trying out.
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The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing
How ’90s webzines heralded the best — and worst — of today’s online media landscape.
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‘I Didn’t Have the Language to Call It Racism’: An Interview with Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung wants white parents of transracial adoptees to grapple more candidly with the reality of racism in America.
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‘Just Assimilate Her Into Your Family and Everything Will Be Fine…’
In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘All You Can Ever Know,’ transracial adoptee Nicole Chung recounts how her parents came to adopt her.