Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump
Margaret Atwood In the spring of 1984 I began to write a novel that was not initially called “The Handmaid’s...
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Longest Experiment – The 500-Year-Long Science Experiment
Longest Experiment In 2014, microbiologists at University of Edinburgh began a study that they hope will continue long after they’re dead....
Nashville Hot Chicken – The Family Business that turned into a Viral Sensation
Nashville Hot Chicken Letter from Nashville February 4, 2019 Issue An African-American-owned restaurant began making the spicy dish eighty years...
Escape Pseudo Events – The Lessons of Covington Catholic
Escape Pseudo Events Escape Pseudo Events This past October, Jane Mayer reviewed a book by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor of communications at...
Japanese Freshwater Eel Slithers Onto the New York Dining Scene
Japanese Freshwater Eel By Hannah Goldfield Two new establishments, Unagi Aburi Ittetsu and Unagi-Ya Hachibei, prepare the delicacy in a traditional...
Godard – Jean-Luc Godard Confronts Cinema’s Depiction of the Arab World
Godard The title of Jean-Luc Godard’s new film, “The Image Book,” is a declaration of the fundamental crisis that it embodies—a...
