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A Guerrilla Girl Drops Her Mask

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The taming of Black thought

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Optimizing yourself into a corner

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Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet

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The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation

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The Donkey and the Meaning of Life

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Love Anyway

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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

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The Lego problem, revisited

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

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How to Live a Miraculous Life

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How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

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Christopher Nolan, David Hockney, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

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More interesting

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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

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Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself as Guerrilla Girls Founding Member

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Nvidia CEO Pours $75M Into San Francisco Art Campus

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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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