When asked if there was “anything people don’t understand” about him, Gorey responded: “Yes. No. Yes. No.” A new biography by Mark Dery attempts to sort myth from reality.
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The Amateur Sleuth Who Can’t Let One Case Rest
One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.
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She’s 17 And Wants To Be A Politician. Her Dad Says He Won’t Vote For Her.
A profile of 17-year-old Iowan Lily Miller, a progressive who wants to run for office, and her right-wing 49-year-old father Mike, who represent a growing phenomenon of young women departing from the conservative views they were raised with.
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Serena Williams’s Love Match
How the greatest tennis player of all time met an internet entrepreneur, fell in love, got pregnant, and won a grand-slam.
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Balancing the Books
The Paris Review launches a monthly column to shine light on women writers from the past who have been under-recognized.
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David Brown’s Quiet Resilience
The former Dallas police chief is familiar with loss: Violence took his son, younger brother, and former partner. His response to the killing of five officers last July was inspiring. He’s not done giving back.
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An Interview with MacArthur ‘Genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017 MacArthur fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses questions of justice, diversity in literature, and empathy across cultures.
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Tramp Like Us
Can an American family learn to become outdoorsy in New Zealand, where the natural world is part of the national DNA? Sort of.
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K.D. Lang Will Indulge Your Craving for “Constant Craving”
K.D. Lang’s seminal album Ingénue is 25 years old. Penelope Green talks to K.D. Lang about how she’s evolved as an artist in the last quarter century.
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Theatre of Wokeness
Are we having a surface-level reckoning?
