The Junk Artist
D’Ambrosio falls into a wide range of subjects, including Native American whaling, housing developments, and tabloid martyr Mary Kay Letourneau.
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The Major and the Minor: Meghan Daum Bears Down
Like any good personal essayist, Meghan Daum knows how to dive and how to surface.
Beauty, Mourning, and Melancholy in Africa39
Africa39 spins at this axis, between the colonized generation of Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness and the post-colonial world to which it gave birth.
The Discreet Charm of Polytheism
Page duBois points out in her book A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism that the West tends to forget that polytheism still exists.
The Beloved
David is the first person in history whose tale is complete and vital.
Ghost Story
With so many ghost stories out there, how to decide which ones to tell?
What Does Not Exist
Srsly.
"Texts from Jane Eyre" Ortberg’s satire matters because it is fantastically able to express women’s anger toward men: men both real, and imagined.
Incompetence Porn: Courtney Moreno’s Existential Tales of an EMT
Moreno’s tale of a novice emergency medical technician isn’t one of virtuosity, genius, or preternatural strength, but of a halting progression from incompetence to competence — a very human trajectory.
The Escapes and Escapades of Rick James
There’s no logical reason Rick James should have lived as long as he did.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Los Angeles
A dentist chair view of LA.
Why Such Tidings
"McGlue" has the urgency of short fiction married with the grandiosity of an epic at-sea classic.
Unleashing the Quiver of Time's Arrows
A Spanish Saga
What Is Enlightenment?: Google, Wikileaks, and the Reorganization of the World
Contributor Harry Halpin on Julian Assange's "What Is Enlightenment?: Google, Wikileaks, and the Reorganization of the World"
Unique Justice
"Scalia is the foremost champion of originalism ever to serve on the Court. But will it survive his tenure?"
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