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“I Find Writing Very Painful”: An Interview with Nathan J. Robinson

A Nass writer sits down with Nathan J. Robinson, Editor of ‘Current Affairs’.

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175 Centimeters

“Click. Click. Click.”

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What Does a Good Girl Look Like

Women, more than men, feel compelled to meet superhuman standards.

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Respecting Authorship

The success of people of color in areas where we were not meant to thrive is constantly met with suspicion.

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A People’s History of the Sex Issue

Celebrating 35 years of journalistic perversion.

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The Myth of the Mason-Dixon Line

“Don’t make deals with the Devil when you don’t know what you have. Check your pockets first. Take inventory.”

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Divine Reckoning

Reflections on traveling the Karu Highway by bus.

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The Second Death

A few weeks ago my friend Demi sat on the floor of my dorm room. She was the first person I had seen from my time studying abroad in Switzerland since I had come back to the U.S. almost two years ago. She hadn’t changed much, though I had, and when she said in the rough Swiss German I had missed so strongly, “er het sich verhängt,”—he had hanged himself— I thought to myself in a language I hadn’t spoken in years — “jetzt gibt’s zwei.” Now there are two.

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Hide Yo Bigots

During the BET awards last month, an enthusiastic Antoine Dodson briefly assumed control of the stage and gave a rousing rendition of his famous single, “The Bed Intruder Song.” Dodson’s glee was apparent from his vivacious grin, and his energy … Read More

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Fowl Swoop

Fiction; interrogation. Answers slid off the man’s tongue.

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‘Moscow’ Updates Chekhov, Makes Audiences LOL and Cry in the Club

Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow opened July 18 at MCC Theater and is scheduled to run through August 3.

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Collection As Art

Included among the objects displayed in “Myself, I Think We Should Keep Collecting Titles,” the Lewis Center for the Arts’ sharp new exhibition of work by Dean of the Faculty and professor of computer science David Dobkin, are: snow globes, popsicle sticks, water bottle caps, Snapple lids, compact discs, keyboards, mother boards, paper tubes, credit cards, safety rings, fasteners, postcards, and pennies.

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