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The Hell-Raising Rocker Who Conquered Country Radio
About a decade ago, an aspiring rock star from Texas named Koe Wetzel had the mixed fortune of writing a song that stuck to him. The verses chronicled one...
Why “Book-Shaming” Won’t Solve the Children’s Literacy Crisis
Ample research shows that passive content consumption among kids and teens is adversely affecting attention spans, language attainment, and other factors that help make deep reading both sustainable and...
Do Older Americans Have Too Much Power?
This attitude found its fullest expression in America, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Americans were in love with the idea of youthful, upstart dynamism; they agreed with Ralph...
Looksmaxxing for Dummies
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In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits
Margaret, following her nutty North Star wherever it leads, would have been right at home in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), in which U.F.O. sightings make enraptured...
Superstitious Behaviors of Knicks Superfans
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What We’re Reading This Summer: Pocket Reads
Helen Rosner on “Great Granny Webster”“Great Granny Webster” presents itself, at first, as a comic novel: a madcap portrait gallery of absurd aristocrats trapped in the self-created, self-imposed miseries...
In Her Memoir, Jill Biden Continues to Avoid Reality
The best rationale for First Lady memoirs is that the domestic details they offer can serve as a lever, lifting the reader from the mundane to reach some larger...
A World-Class Omakase in America’s Most Landlocked State
Many of the commercial strips in Omaha, a city of about half a million people, have the air of a nineties college town, with low-slung blocks of row houses...
Edmonia Lewis, the Misunderstood Sculptor Who Brought Stone to Life
The exhibition opens with Lewis’s sculpture “Forever Free” (1866-67). Roughly three and a half feet tall, it shows a man and a woman who’ve just heard the news of...
