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The Great Bieberization: How the Kids Took Over
Envy is the subterranean companion of every writer I know. And, I am no exception. When I was toiling through my first years of graduate school in English, it was the era of Jo... ...read more
How Project Runway Lost Its Edge
On the first season of “Project Runway,” no one cried. Jay McCarroll won that round, and he rolled with the punches. He was unsentimental, a queer kid from the hinterlands of... ...read more
Whitney and Osama, a Terrorist’s Obsession
The Cold War was won as much with cultural weapons—Levi’s 501 jeans and “Flashdance” —as it was with threatened nuclear holocaust. Glasnost was a word that literal... ...read more
TV Chefs as Religious Icons
In a recent issue of The New York Times (slower, dinosaur cousin to The Faster Times), Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, takes aim at Am... ...read moreFollow Us
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