Category: Culture

Rub-A-Dub-Dub, Two Men in a Tub: Ruminations on Male Nudity

In which the author travels, bathes, and contemplates.

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The Desperation of a 2010’s Star

Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber enter a new decade.

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My Strange Addiction: How I Converted Myself into a Billie Eilish Fan

The personal history of a new fan.

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Verbal Knockout

“This was never going to be a simple game with a clear winner. From the start, this boxing match was set up to be a rivalry. It would last nineteen years and counting.”

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The Wyeths: A Family Portrait

“The Wyeth saga began with N.C.: a maverick unimpressed by his industrializing world who became infatuated instead with adventure, romance, and old America––back when the connection between humanity and nature was more immediate.”

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Finsta: The Impossible Quest for the Unfiltered

“Like young adults always have, we struggle to verbalize our anxieties and regulate our vulnerability. Finsta posts help in that they allow us to remain in control of ourselves.”

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A Review of Tall Girl

Considering the notorious Netflix drama.

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Croc of Gold

“The king of clogs, sultan of slippers, ruler of rubber, the umph in umphibious, the ‘see ya later alligator,’ Guy Fieri’s favorite shoe”

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A Melody at the Crossroads

An artful history of Alexander Hall.

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Reckoning for the Hathahaters

Interrogating how and why Hollywood women fall out of public favor.

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On The Canada Goose Jacket, Tote Bags, and Other Manifestations of Personal Complexes

On posturing and personal complexes.

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Bramble Cay Melomys

“We can’t see all the bees dying, we can’t see deforestation, we can’t see shrinking crop yields, most of us cannot even see the ravaged coastline cities of Bangladesh. The climate apocalypse is here, it just isn’t in New Canaan Connecticut yet.”

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