January 2011 Archives
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Gallery
Tripling
The subjects of TRIIIBE’s remarkable photos are the Casilio triplets, whose costume changes and settings are chameleon-like and socially thought-provoking.
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The Non-Expert
Zodiac Gemstone Food Pairings
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we offer dream analysis with multiple charts to a reader whose rice turned to rocks.
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The Golem Blog
The Two Shmuels
The day-to-day returns, but the sense of danger is still palpable to the Golem and Ruth. Reluctantly, he returns to his blog, this time with a prompt.
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Personal Essays
The Impossible Everything That Everybody Wants
In western Maryland, where the state’s already skinny, being a stutterer who can’t eat doesn’t help growing up. Paying tribute to 1980s Appalachia, home to American chariots.
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Lunch Poems
Mikvah
A new poem, part confession, part song, about immersion and seafood soup.
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Gallery
Marwencol
When Mark Hogancamp awoke from a coma after being brutally assaulted in 2000, he began to build, with breathtaking attention to detail, a minified fantasy world called Marwencol.
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Opinions
The Ghost in the Machine Is a Jerk
Everyone has computer problems—only a chosen few are driven insane by them. A defense of daily paranoia.
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The Rooster
The 2011 Tournament of Books
Announcing the contenders, judges, and Zombie Round for the bloodiest award in publishing: the Seventh Annual Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
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Announcements
Blank for President
Sure, Obama will be running for re-election very soon, and sure, plenty of people will be backing him, but plenty of OTHER people will be running, too. So now seems...
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Spoofs & Satire
America’s Most Frozen
Rapists, murderers, human traffickers—this winter, sedentary criminals are rife in the nation’s parks. Photos of the 11 worst suspects.
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Gallery
Industrial Scars
Environmentalist and photographer J. Henry Fair wants you to stop buying plastic bottles, driving to work, and leaving the lights on. With government controlled by polluting special interests, Fair believes we must vote with our dollars to curb environmental ruin.
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The Non-Expert
(Drool) Brittania
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, a woman seeking men from Blighty meets the Connecticut Britons.
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Gallery
Tent Life
When asked in 2007 why he photographed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Wyatt Gallery told us he went in order to understand the disaster and its aftermath.
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Personal Essays
Modern Hospitality
Faced with a stranger at the door seeking shelter for the night, what do you do?
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Spoofs & Satire
How to Make Celebrities Fall in Love With You
If you tell Johnny Depp he’s hideous looking, he’ll think you’re the first person he’s met who sees past his physical appearance—and other lessons.
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Opinions
The Year of Practical Thinking
You learn something new every day, or so they say. In 2010, our writer decided to keep track. Revelations, lessons, and the wisdom of dishwashers in 365 parts.
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Personal Essays
The Karma Bum
When Allen Ginsberg stayed with my family, we played video games and read together. But the harmony was broken when the yoga began. It wouldn’t be the last time.
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Gallery
The Empty Restaurants of New York
When a restaurant is empty, is it still an eating establishment? Wijnanda Deroo’s portraits of vacant restaurants, taken in four of New York City’s five boroughs, reflect just as much on human habits—although people are conspicuously absent from her photographs—as on the spaces themselves.