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Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life

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Trump Installs Thomas Jefferson Statue in the Rose Garden

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Sable Elyse Smith Reveals the Shapes of State Violence

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Emory Douglas’s Lifetime of Revolutionary Art

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Damien Aubin Documents a Former Soviet Mining Settlement Suspended in Time

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Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Ms. Boodle: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Advice on Writing to a Young Woman Aspiring to Be an Author

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Gassed Up

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Felicia Chiao’s Domestic Scenes Reflect the Emotional Structures of Daily Life

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A View From the Easel

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A New Colossal Shop Collection Highlights Local Artists and Chicago-Made Goods

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The Biggest American Wiener

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Signal then storm

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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out.

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First take/next take/last take

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Where Did Europe’s Countries—and the United Kingdom—Get Their Names?

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19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body

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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

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New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink...

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It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers ....

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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the...

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Dostoyevsky in Love

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Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

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132 New York Artists Receive $903,000 in Grants

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“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by...

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Former V&A Academic Programs Head Accuses Museum of “Racist” Behavior

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Playful Knitted Pillows by Donna Wilson Infuse Interiors with Whimsy and Joy

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Meet the Curators of the Next “Made in LA”

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“In extreme cases, it can create a phantom...

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Mayor Mamdani Should Reclaim the City’s Jefferson Statue

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Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and...

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Giant Wieners, Drag Queens, and Curtis Sliwa at “The Most American Pageant Ever!”

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Required Reading

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What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli?

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Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part...

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A Dying Art

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We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night...

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Beckett the Prophet

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A Matter of Form (1984)

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Patrick Dougherty’s ‘Stickwork’ Installations Conjure Connections with Nature

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An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers ,...

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“ This map shows the predicted density of...

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The Children Who Loved a Killer

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All the Queens houses

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David Hockney’s Endless Scroll

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The savage bites back

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How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff

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Industrialism and the slippery slope

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A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History

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How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson

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