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Why have children stopped reading for fun? Blame screens, but not only screens ..read more
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“The Bad Dad Joke is defined as much by what it leaves out as what it includes. Fear, rage, self-aggrandizement ..read more
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How did Richard Owen, a pioneering Victorian paleontologist, inspire such astonishingly intense hatred among his contemporaries ..read more
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In the 1920s, young Cecilia Payne answered a vexing scientific question: What are stars made of? The scientific establishment was not pleased ..read more
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In 1973, The Secret Life of Plants was a bestseller. It left a decades-long taint over the field of plant behavior research ..read more
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Diversity is a master concept of our time, but what happens when diversity of identity and diversity of ideology conflict ..read more
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Paul Auster’s career is a reminder that writers' lesser efforts can go unnoticed in the presence of their masterworks ..read more
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“There is no end to war and no end, it would seem, to the uses Shakespeare can be put to in war ..read more
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“I’m drunk today and I don’t talk very clearly.” In interviews and letters, the painter Francis Bacon issued a multitude of apologies ..read more
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Walter Kirn, the conspiratorially minded counter-elite journalist, tries a new way of sticking it to the ruling classes: founding a literary magazine ..read more