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Radio journalism is having some trouble with self-definition right now. Every art form always is, of course, but radio’s growing pains are under particular public scrutiny. In January, This American...
View ArticleDavid Rakoff, 1964–2012
We are sad to learn of the death of David Rakoff, at forty-seven, after a long battle with cancer. Rakoff’s essays and contributions to This American Life include what must be the most melancholy humor...
View ArticleWhat We’re Loving: Underwater Photography, Semicolons, Rimbaud
When I was a teenager, I had a series of dreams in which I would attempt to do the most banal tasks underwater: eat breakfast, cut my toenails, read a book whose waterlogged pages would always stick...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Caterpillars, Cells, and Charlottesville
From Fabiola Ferrero’s photo-essay on Venezuela, linked in Todd Pruzan’s Tinyletter. All week, Sadie looks forward to the stern diktats and severe pronunciamentos in Sam Sifton’s cooking newsletter...
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