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Dear Rick Moody, Life Coach: “I Can No Longer Cry. Please Help.”
Dear Rick Moody, Life Coach, I suffer from depression. I have come to peace with the fact that the drugs really do help, but one side-effect is crippling to me; I can’t cry. I quite enjoyed crying....
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Dear Fellow Traveler: A Close Reading of the Magnetic Guest Journals at...
Love Shack. Tool Shed. Cabin of Dreams. Doll House. The Cabinet. The travelers who stay at Castro Cabin, the smallest and most remote guest cottage at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn, often invent their own...
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From Such Swarms: Vision of a Refugee
From Such Swarms From such swarms a human face emerges—streaked with sweat, with tears, with blood, with spit, with the last bites, murmuring the last rites over bodies in the desert, bodies at sea,...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read
Believe it or not, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—acclaimed novelist, famous feminist, certified genius—turns 40 today. In recent years, Adichie has become an international authority on feminism, and her...
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Barry Lopez on the Hard Question of Humanity’s Survival
Whenever I camp for a while in a place as remote as Skraeling Island, I notice again the sensations of isolation. Logic tells you that all other humans except those in your party are far away. Most...
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On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts
Here’s where it begins for me: a four-panel strip, Lucy and Linus, simplest narrative in the universe. As the sequence starts, we see Lucy skipping rope and, like an older sister, giving Linus a hard...
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Did This Iconic 1962 Short Film Show Us Our Dark Future?
This past summer, I stumbled across a link on social media to Chris Marker’s 1962 science fiction film La Jetée. For those who don’t know it, Marker’s miniature masterpiece—its running time is 28...
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Can You Bring a Tiny Robot Into an Exclusive Austrian Sanatorium?
My obsession with sanatoriums must be genetic; I come from a family of doctors who, in the early 20th century, established a dozen health spas in Béarn. When I was a child, my grandfather told me that...
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Our Economics of Domination and Exploitation is Wrecking the Planet
The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper...
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Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity
A Nigerian goddess who longs to be seen, a young business woman who makes leaps in her love life, an influential Ghanaian spokeswoman who must decide if she will be true to her heart—these are just...
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