Two young sisters living in Thailand sneak off their diplomatic compound for a night of beauty and danger in this spellbinding short story.
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Rainy Season
Two young sisters living in Thailand sneak off their diplomatic compound for a night of beauty and danger in this spellbinding short story.
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The Selling of ‘Valley of the Dolls’
“A new book is like a new brand of detergent,” Jacqueline Susann famously said. “You have to let the public know about it. What’s wrong with that?”
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Who Owns Tattoos?
Over at Vice Sports, Aaron Gordon has a fascinating piece up about intellectual property rights and tattoos. He opens with the case of the NBA2K video game series, which is currently being sued by a tattoo artist agency over the games’ digitally recreated tattoos, which appear on the virtual bodies of players such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. But copyright issues […]
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The Art World Is Crazy
Sam Knight takes coverage of international freeport intrigue to the next level in this week’s New Yorker, with “The Bouvier Affair.”
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How to Drop Out of a Presidential Race
Matt Larimer’s piece offers an excellent guide for the losers of Iowa and New Hampshire and armchair analysts alike.
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Talking to Alice Driver About Violence Against Women in Juárez
Alice Driver, a filmmaker, writer and photographer whose work focuses on human rights, feminism, and activism, has written extensively about Juárez.
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Stories Make Us Human
Journalist Jacqui Banaszynski’s advice for reporting on the lives of others.
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The Ever-Shifting Definition of ‘Progressive’
Who gets to be a “progressive”?
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Seven Takes on Obama for the Final State of the Union
Stories from Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and more.