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Megan Garber

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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • June 27, 2018
A weekly roundup of essays we're reading online!
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Your Regularly Scheduled Gratification

  • Michelle Vider
  • April 19, 2016
At the Atlantic, Megan Garber explores the revival of the serial with the recent release of Belgravia, a serial novel-and-app from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey.
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Language as Passive-Aggression

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • September 16, 2015
At the Atlantic, Megan Garber proposes a new word to describe words and phrases that have come to mean their opposite, like “honestly,” “no offense,” and “literally”: So here’s one proposal: Let’s call…
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The Decline of Punctuation?!…

  • The Rumpus
  • March 21, 2014
We live in a heyday of punctuation. “Call this what you will—exclamatory excess, punctuation inflation, the result of the Internet’s limitless expanse—it is everywhere,” writes Megan Garber at the Atlantic.…
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“Because” Has New Meaning, Because Grammar

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • November 25, 2013
Like it or not, the meanings and uses of words are constantly shifting, because language. At the Atlantic, Megan Garber writes about how the word “because,” normally a subordinating conjunction, is…
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Slow Clap

  • Tony DeGenaro
  • April 3, 2013
Megan Garber gives an exceptionally detailed breakdown of applause in this essay, which analyzes the history and evolution of the everyday gesture. So the subtleties of the Roman arena — the claps and…
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No More Room for “Whom”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 26, 2013
Via The Millions, an Atlantic blog post on the death of “America’s least favorite pronoun”: the dreaded “whom.” It always feels like society is crumbling when big linguistic changes occur,…
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