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Friday, August 31, 2012

David Foster Wallace's Vision of a Balanced Life

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... and it's a beautifully simple one, rooted in everyday happiness.  Young writers should study this carefully: What Balance Would ...

The thing about History is that the darn thing never stays written...

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Kitchen Tip: Cool Way to Separate Egg Yolk from White

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Very much off-piste here, but fascinating idea from an obscure Chinese website, a new cool way to separate the egg yolk from the white. I...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Dear CNN, Release the Footage, Identify the Peanut Thrower

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At the Republican National Convention last night Ann Romney made a poised debut, Chris Christie speaking off the cuff threw his hat into the...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

On Handling the Koran... and mishandling justice.

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The Christian Science Monitor reports that the US military is disciplining troops over an incident that provoked outrage in Afghanistan ear...
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... has contributed journalism to The Financial Times, The Paris Review, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Monocle, Esquire, Harpers, Standpoint magazine, the Sunday Telegraph, the BBC, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Indian Quarterly... as well as photography to Elle. He has reported from the US, UK, Chile, Sweden, Mexico, Morocco, France, Croatia, Turkey, Egypt, and Lebanon.
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