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What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Wesley Yangnymag.com
Liberman was a Condé Nast company man by day, and a fine artist on weekends. On Friday afternoons, he changed out of his suit (gray if it was fall, winter, or spring, tan for summers), dark knit tie, and blue shirt, and into overalls, then headed from his Manhattan townhouse to his Warren, Connecticut, home in Litchfield County, where, like a posh
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The desert offered a pantheon
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Homepage - The Atavist Magazine
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It’s hard to see history when you’re in the middle of it, harder still to distinguish Swift’s impact on the culture from her celebrity, which emits so much light it can be blinding. But something unusual is happening with Swift, without a contemporary precedent. She deploys the most efficient medium of the day—the pop song—to tell her story. Yet... See more
Sam Lansky • Is TIME's 2023 Person of the Year
She had been stricken from her marriage, rendered near penniless by the events, and was now an older and disregarded woman. It’s a harrowingly common feeling, even if the details of her experience and solution are particular. We women age, eyes sweep over us in obvious disregard, our moments of confusion are mocked, our knowledge makes us
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Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
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In our On Margins chat, we mention Obama, how his ascension symbolized some “completion” — “it was love triumphing over hate, and peace over war, and all sorts of things of the way we were told how things were going to play out because of the natural order of the world, that there would be some sort of correction and this was the correction.” It’s... See more