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Posts Tagged: Thomas Dai

This Week in Essays

By Tamara Matthews

April 10th, 2019

A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!

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Tags: Alex Brown, catapult, Christa Parravani, Darcy Jay Gagnon, entropy, Guernica, Jenn Shapland, Justin Phillip Reed, Off Assignment, Outside, Rachel Swearingen, This Week in Essays, Thomas Dai

Teeth: An Oral History

By Thomas Dai

April 4th, 2019

Few people can tell that my smile is literally fake.

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Tags: A Serious Man, accountability, Appalachia, Arthur Koestler, car accident, Charles D'Ambrosio, Chasing Cars, Chengdu, China, Chinese, Coen Brothers, dental insurance, dental surgery, dentist, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, endodontist, Graham Greene, Hans Christian Anderson, healthcare, immigrants, James Joyce, Peter Ungar, Snow Patrol, teeth, Theodore Ziolkowski, Thomas Dai, Thomas Mann, Thoreau, tooth pain, toothache, trauma, Valeria Luiselli, zadie smith

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