Articles Written By Angela Chen
TMN editor Angela Chen reads at 500 words per minute, types at 140 words per minute, and walks at five miles an hour. She lives in New York, where she spends her working hours trying to do all these simultaneously. You can email her here.
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The Rooster
A Brief History of the Tournament of Books
You can’t kill the Rooster.
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Oh, Canada
War Plan Red
The quirky history behind the secret, full-scale invasion that the United States once planned for Canada, and vice versa.
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Growing Up
Silicon Valley High
No one’s surprised in Silicon Valley when a 12-year-old runs the family e-commerce store. But going to the same high school as Steve Jobs and liking it are two different things.
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The Arts Desk
The Übersinner
Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” interviews—edited for the seven deadly sins—provide an Idolatry of Self so big, it produces Zen koans.
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Opinions
The Unbearable Lightness of Declaring a Liberal Arts Major
Faced with a deadline to choose her major, our writer hunts down interview subjects to learn where their studies got them, no matter her mother’s loathing of the liberal arts.