Don’t Tell Your Kids They’re Smart
One of the most important ways to encourage your children academically and intellectually is to praise them for being smart—or is it actually the complete opposite of that? For New York…
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The Great Gatsby, Meticulously Mapped
If your love of great American literature is matched only by your love of streamlined visual data, have we got a poster for you. Electric Literature links to a print…
Some Tips for Emily Dickinson
We’ve all heard stories of publishing houses unwittingly rejecting future classics or bestsellers—most recently the detective novel J. K. Rowling wrote under a pseudonym. But have you ever wondered how…
“No Offense”
Poet and Twitter personality Patricia Lockwood has an intensely good (and just plain intense) poem up The Awl. It’s called “Rape Joke,” and it starts like this: The rape joke…
A Tragic Passing
A great tragedy struck the world this week: Print is dead. The Onion has more information on the well-respected medium’s passing at age 1,803: “I’m in absolute shock right now,” said…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is on tour with his band for the next three plus weeks, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. It’s not Atlantis but they found…
R.I.P. Richard Matheson: Why Film Adaptations of His Work Have Been So Terrible
Legendary science fiction author and screenwriter Richard Matheson, who unfortunately passed away a little over a month ago, has had his work adapted into a plethora of movies—I Am Legend, The Box, The…
On Being “Smart Dumb”
Kenneth Goldsmith, who was recently appointed MoMA’s “poet laureate,” shares over at The Awl a manifesto of sorts advocating for “smart dumb,” which he claims is an alternative to “both smart…
Self-Love at Size 24
I remember meeting with my thesis advisor in my final week of college. I was the thinnest I’d ever been, a size 12. Starvation shrank my stomach into a fist.…
There Are Liars, And Then There Are Fabulists
Len had led a grand life—dual citizenship in Israel and the United States, a stint in the IDF followed by apparent conscientious objection, elite schooling in Rome and Moscow, and…
Next Letter in the Mail: Zoe Ruiz
Put on your party hats! The next Letter in the Mail, going out July 31, is from our Saturday editor Zoë Ruiz! In addition to putting together fabulous comics, interviews,…
The Faces of Immigration 100 Years Ago
To celebrate the Senate’s approval of immigration-reform legislation, Buzzfeed has a collection of photos of immigrants who came through Ellis Island near the turn of the last century. From a…