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Monster Movement
For Art Nouveau, the city was an extension of nature. For Carriès, that extension was a tumor.
By Morgan Meis
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Feeding Ganesh
I hope the Hindu god likes rice, eggs, pudding, fruit, and goat after goat after goat.
By Elizabeth Cinello
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ACK!
Three decades of big social changes, but summer still came and Cathy was still trying on swimsuits. Now she's gone.
By Paula Marantz Cohen
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Fancy Schmancy
If you think we're in a rather austere moment, then you weren't at the 56th annual Fancy Food Show.
By Jason Wilson
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BOOKSLUT
The Home Front
I agree with the fundamental beliefs behind a book like Radical Homemakers. But what if I don't own a farm, or a garden, or even a balcony?
By Jessa Crispin
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PERTINENT & IMPERTINENT
The King's Two Bodies
They recently dug up Nicolae Ceausescu's corpse. A dictator never really dies.
By Stefany Anne Golberg
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IDEAS
Life's Work
William James refused to reduce life or cancel possibility (and he didn't like Henry's writing).
By Paula Marantz Cohen
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IDEAS
Dictating a Masterpiece
Modern writers now use voice recognition software. Milton, Dostoevsky, and Henry James made due with...women.
By Amy Rowland
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SECOND ACTS
A Wedding Trip
Most people ''attend'' a wedding or a funeral. Sometimes I like to be a bit more remote.
By Miriam N. Kotzin
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FIRST PERSON
The Metaphysics of Cutting Grass
The chore offers the pleasure of visible accomplishment. More important, it lets me hook those thoughts lurking just beneath the surface.
By Jerry DeNuccio
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IDLE CHATTER
Death to Belgium!
Does the European Union render some nations useless? In other words, what's the point of Belgium?
By Morgan Meis
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JOURNEYS
Just the Factories
Factory tours are never mentioned in the same breath as national parks or museums or battlefields. And yet who can turn one down?
By Jesse Smith
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