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Here, Then Gone

Before Malcolm Gladwell took to the Convention Center stage last Saturday morning at the 35th annual National Association…

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A Postscript

In the week and half since Kenneth Koch’s death, nobody has written about his life or his work…

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The Nightstand

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Ms. Mango Street

In what may come to be known as the first nice column we have ever written, the Nightstand…

Merry Everything!

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Merry Everything!

What people are celebrating everywhere else.

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At the Movies

In 1925, the year she would write Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was in two places at once: at…

Worth the wait: Chaka strikes a pose.

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Christmas Is a Drag

Out and about with Chaka Kwan.

News Clips— Needle Exchange

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News Clips— Needle Exchange

REALNETWORKS laid off 15 percent of its workers last Friday. Monday morning we logged on to fuckedcompany.com, the…

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The Nightstand

Book news and gossip.

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Animal Farm

Let’s say you’re George Plimpton. How the transformation occurred, exactly, doesn’t matter. Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis became…

Matt Briggs doesn't fuck around.

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An excellent way to end it

Matt Briggs and his strange stories.

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The Nightstand

Taking Loads, Plugging Stuff

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Dave Redux

A friend of this column rightly points out that we have written about Dave Eggers before (The Nightstand,…

Eat Drink Toke

The Hot Sheet

Enjoy life: eat out more often!

Me, myself, and I

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Me, myself, and I

David Shields' minor work shows major ego.

Goodbye to all that

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Goodbye to all that

Joan Didion on terrorism and the sudden irrelevance of everything else.

We'll always have Kabul?

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News Clips— Playing it again

ONE MONTH TO THE DAY after Sept. 11—the day everyone’s still talking about—classes are cancelled at the University…

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News Clips— Gay community centered

THE CENTER OF gay things to come couldn’t be better situated: two blocks up from one boy bar,…

Zadie Smith on her first novel: "The places where White Teeth sucks—and there are a load of them—it's not because of the flashbacks, guys. It's because the writing is overindulgent, baggy, and dishonest."

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Teeth Marks

A review of the reviews of The Autograph Man.