Articles Tagged with #america
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Novelists in Restaurants Eating Food
Union Square Sports Bar
An adventure of food and drink in San Francisco naturally expands to include Ornette Coleman, Mexican wedding cookies, and a pet monkey admiring the ocean.
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Personal Histories
The Limousine
Prom is a big night for many teenagers, full of firsts. First corsage. First big dance. Never mind first time in a limo—with disastrous results.
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Gallery
May the Road Rise to Meet You
Traveling the country with the great American salesman, a photographer rediscovers her father.
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Breaking the News Cycle
Crazy in Love With Kansas
Brief updates on important stories that have tumbled off the front page—“Carry That Weight,” Brownbackonomics, the ice bucket challenge, homophobia in Russia, and more.
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Gallery
Mars on Mars
An artist’s ethereal treatment of the cosmos and the desert win her a massive, devoted following.
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Gallery
A Perfect, Unattainable Romance
Niagara Falls is known as the perfect place for a romantic honeymoon, or a spectacular death.
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Gallery
Southern Cavaliers
Biker rallies, rodeos, and other loud gatherings in the American South. Watch out for the flaming torches.
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Letters From Tokyo
Three Feet by Six Feet by Three Feet
A visit to the granddaddy of Japan’s capsule hotels—with cot-sized individual spaces and shared amenities—and a lesson in different methods of getting along.
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News From America
Work Is Pretty Scarce Around Here
Just before and right after President Obama’s State of the Union address, an editor telephones complete strangers around the country, to find out what’s really going on.
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Realpolitiking
They Are Charlie
An American in Dijon, France, brings his country’s grasp of recent terrorism to a nation enthralled by theory, traumatized by attack.
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Explainers
The Marriage Defense
The Supreme Court will soon deliver a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage, a subject that has roiled the United States since the colonial era—or not. A brief illustrated history.
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Realpolitiking
Grading the President
As President Obama enters his final days in office, a proper assessment of his tenure requires a variety of measurable, non-political categories: golf, offspring, homebrewing, and more.