Flavor of the Week
Superman Reads Plato, Saves Humanity
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Fiction
Portrait of a Seated Man
Jonathan Hull
New fiction: “Museum staff had given him a nickname, they called him ‘The Toad,’ and they whispered it to one another whenever he entered the galleries.”
Flavor of the Week
Wedding Season and The All-American Antihero
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Poetry
On the Day You Are Dying
Tim Whitsel
I bow to daffodils for their / stabbing audacity in grim weeks of winter.
Culture
Istanbul Chronicles Part I: The Music of Beylikdüzü
Edwin Rivera
An outsider’s perspective on the protests in Turkey.
Flavor of the Week
Face Reading and Ilya Kaminsky’s Dancing in Odessa
Construction Staff
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Culture
Gregory Pincus and One Little Pill that Saved the World
Ian Cheney
#25 in the countdown of the 30 most influential people in western civilization.
Flavor of the Week
Inside Fox News and Freerice Vocabulary
Construction Staff
Weekly picks from the office.
Flavor of the Week
Watergate, Great Gatsby, and Live Cultures
Construction Staff
Weekly picks from the office.
Fiction
Everyone Has Your Best Interests at Heart
Sara Lippmann
New Fiction: “Fake rifles pick off fake deer.”
Culture
How Peter the Great Modernized Russia
Ian Cheney
#26 in the countdown of the 30 most influential people in western civilization.
Sports
When Kevin Ware Went Down
Shiva Bhaskar
Why colleges must protect (and pay) scholarship athletes.
Flavor of the Week
Schubert’s Second Symphony and a Eugene Man’s Nutsack
Construction Staff
Weekly picks from the office.
