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“They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”:...

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The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs

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Vibrant Victorian-Era Transparencies Illuminate a Host of Microscopic Creatures

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How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With...

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Democracy by lottery

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Artists, Read the Fine Print

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Reality emerges

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Trained equanimity and a bias toward action

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You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes

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Chuck Jones’ The Dot and the Line Celebrates Geometry & Hard Work: An Oscar-Winning Animation (1965)

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Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down

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Hannah Arendt on the Power of Being an Outsider

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Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness

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Just like me, but…

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The Wanting Monster: A Tender Modern Fable about the Difficult Art of Resting at the Still Point of Enough

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The Day I Became a Bird: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Falling in Love and Learning to Unmask Our True Selves

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May You Live in Less Interesting Times

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Nostalgia can be fatal

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15 Art Shows to See in NYC This May

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Ohhhhh dear, Richard Dawkins: Is AI the Next Phase of...

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Unruly Play : “A collection of 169 works of play...

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Kim Dacres Revitalizes Sleek Tires, Chains, and Gears in Defiant Sculptures

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Venice Biennale Scraps “Golden Lion” Awards as Turmoil Continues

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Ada Palmer & Bruce Schneier: AI Learns Language From...

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Trump Border Wall Crews Damage 1,000-Year-Old Native Etching in Arizona

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Who Merits the Longest NY Times Obituaries?

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The Number You Have Dialed

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Am…am I “alternatively influential” ?...

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What Artists Sign Away

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The Supreme Court Is Corrupt. This Is What We Can Do About It.

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The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the “Submerged Sunrise of Wonder”

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The Film That Attacks You

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Opportunities in May 2026

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Secrets of the Bees: Revealing the Sneaky Genius of Nature’s Brightest Thinkers

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I fixed a few bugs on the Rolodex yesterday — some of...

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Diedrick Brackens’s Tapestries Beckon the Light of Freedom

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“Since 1900, scientists have observed more than 20...

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A View From the Easel

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SMFA at Tufts Presents Passages, the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

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I Mean, Why Shouldn’t We All Smoke Cigarettes Again?

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On the futility of border walls . “The Ozymandian...

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The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ ....

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“You Are Always Just a Kiss Away From Me My Beautiful Boy.”

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Venice Biennale Jury Resigns

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To be is to participate

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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“The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards”

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How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With a Radical Recut, Cutting It From 3½ Hours to 93 Minutes

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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

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The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception

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