Swearing Firsts in the New Yorker
The New Yorker’s history of expletive usage and pioneering is recounted by the Awl in list-form. Times have changed, along with the editors at the New Yorker and this in…
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Revolutionary Wikipedia
All of us Wikipedia users are constantly reaping the benefits of massive information-based collaboration. This essay, published in the Awl, considers why this resource is so essential in our digital…
A Disappearing Past
There are currently two living veterans from World War I. Pondering what it means to be the last first-hand witnesses to an era or a major historical event is the…
Eileen Myles Weighs in
Over at The Awl, Eileen Myles shares her thoughts on seeing the VIDA pie graphs. She tells us that writing by women is inherently more interesting: “Why? Because the female…