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Pertinent & Impertinent I am a vegetarian, so of course I read Eating Animals, which is a hot new book exploring ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
By Stefany Anne Golberg
Foodstuffs There's a shortage of canned pumpkin! How will I make my canned pumpkin pie?!
By Meg Favreau
The Naturalist Can't wait until Thanksgiving to know the winner of the National Dog Show? Neither could I.
By Jesse Smith
Grand Tour In Greece, to talk of food is to talk about morality, clothing, religion, health, history...
By Maria Hnaraki
Something Personal Why would anyone call someone my age ''young lady''? Hegemonic masculinity?
By Miriam N. Kotzin
Ask a Poet Love poetry, hate the insular nature of the poetry community. Should I jump ship?
By Kristen Hoggatt
Cause & Effect Do anything long enough and it becomes habit. Take my pleasant customer service at a seriously god-awful German bakery.
By Emily Callaghan
Noncanonical Transcendence to a godly non-place seems an unlikely goal for an illustrator, but that's Blake for you.
By Morgan Meis
Foodstuffs There's a reason the Bible makes no mention of margarine.
By Meg Favreau
Idle Chatter For Kierkegaard, the power of repetition is that you come to know who you are, but never exactly what you will do.
By Morgan Meis
Something Personal Among the things I discovered on coming to the U.S.: Americans' habit of selling stuff on their lawns.
By Sujatha Bagal
The Naturalist Used to be a bear or a lion made a good team mascot. Then came the Phillie Phanatic.
By Jesse Smith
Something Personal Call the gender divide outdated, but Rosemary and I just could not get into football.
By Paula Marantz Cohen
Ask a Poet Sadness, sadness, everywhere, and I'm drinking it all in!
By Kristen Hoggatt
Foodstuffs Yes, times are tough. You can cry about it, or you can roll up your sleeves and smoke salmon.
By Meg Favreau
Noncanonical Nature is mechanistic in its functioning, but speaks to us in feelings. Take the weather.
By Morgan Meis
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Turducken, Meet Your Match
Being vegetarian doesn't mean you have to give up the historic decadence of meat stuffed in meat stuffed in more meat.
By Stefany Anne Golberg
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Popular Products
Vitaminwater wants YOU to help choose its next flavor! Because, of course, you have so much experience in flavor development.
By Greg Beato
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The Prose of Kierkegaard
As this new translation of Repetition shows, the philosopher wrote lovely books that can actually be read and enjoyed by those outside the academy.
By M.G. Piety
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Lend Me Your Ear
Unlike the private letters of most great persons, Van Gogh's illuminate the man behind them.
By Morgan Meis
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On Nicknaming
I hated that my insufferable boss thought he came up with good nicknames. He was as bad at nicknaming as he was at using e-mail.
By Erin Denver
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Code Blue
Death panels. Public options. Obesity. Organic. Why is no one talking about mental health care reform?
By Jessa Crispin
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Monkey Business
In Thailand, all I wanted to do was touch a monkey. Next thing I know, I'm talking about herpes.
By Andrea Calabretta
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Getting the Green Light
Scientists have used gene therapy to correct color blindness in monkeys. Will humans now see the light?
By Jennifer Fisher Wilson
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Groundskeeping
Mexico has Día de los Muertos. Nepal has Gai Jatra. But America, being America, has no cohesive culture of death.
By Stefany Anne Golberg
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From the Archives
Everyone wonders what the future holds for books. But what of the public buildings that house them?
By Michael Gorra
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