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Living to Work in Severance

I’ve been laid off twice in my life. In the leadup to each, workplace conversations converged on a single...

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Richard Powers’s Romanticism

In his Booker Prize-nominated 2021 novel Bewilderment, Richard Powers tells the story of Robin, a nine-year-old boy struggling to...

An Ode to the Haircut

How incredibly lucky one must be to get a haircut more than two even three times a year. Once...

The Gravity and Levity of How To with John Wilson

At least once a day, I stare at two of my most cherished possessions—a half-used can of Barbasol and...

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Flashes of Light

The night before my youngest daughter was born in August 2020, I finished a round of revisions on my...

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Love Among the Pods; Or, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Textual Intercourse

the only chance for happiness in this disastrous world … –Mary Wollstonecraft   There’s a moment in Mary Wollstonecraft’s final,...

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