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Why I Keep Listening to Green Day’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’
When I receive disappointing news, I allow myself to wallow for exactly four minutes and 22 seconds: the length of the 2004 Green Day hit ...
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How to Be Less Fearful of the Dark
“Uncertainty is a breeding ground for anxiety, and darkness is full of uncertainty,” says Krystal M. Lewis, a clinical psychologist at the ...
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The Married Couple Behind the Dreamy Feminist Action Film ‘Mayday’
When the cinematographer Sam Levy and the writer and director Karen Cinorre, who are now married forty-somethings, first met — in a film class as ...
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The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson
In January, the artist Lorna Simpson awed readers of Essence magazine with collages featuring photographs of that month’s cover star, Rihanna ...
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A Ceramist Inspired by Folklore and the British Countryside
FIRST-TIME VISITORS TO the ceramist Prue Piper’s house are typically late, and readily forgiven for it, because the place, a charmingly ...
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The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we’re eating, wearing, listening to or coveting ...
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She Was Training for a Marathon. Suddenly, She Could Barely Walk.
The 47-year-old woman lay in bed, exhausted and in pain. Her longtime partner lay next to her, anxious to do anything to help her feel better ...
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Judge John Hodgman on Birthday Traditions
Abigail writes: During birthdays, my mother makes everyone say nice things about the birthday honoree. I am one of four kids, all with small ...
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Poem: Postlude
In a poem of mine, I once borrowed the lines “If you can’t be free, be a mystery” from Rita Dove’s “Canary.” Using the lines, I possessed, for a ...
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These Literary Memoirs Take a Different Tack
IN CERTAIN FAMILIES, there’s only room for one storyteller, and in mine, it was my grandfather. Grandpa O’Grady was always the hero of the ...