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Marilynne Robinson Interviewed by VICE, Talks About Vice, Is Viceless

Inside the San Marcos Aquarena, an “underwater world of mermaids, clowns, and a swimming pig named…

These two bystanders in Times Square shot by the police (they’re okay, and commissioner Ray Kelly…

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Alex Winston, “101 Vultures”

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New Season of Downton Abbey to Include New “Risqué” Edith and a Cameo by Virginia Woolf

This Moving Animated Short Features a Fiona Apple Cover of “Pure Imagination,” Is an Ad for Chipotle

Flannery O’Connor’s Letters to God

We Have Finally Sailed Beyond the Solar System

Lorde, “Team”

The Sexual History of Jared Sabbagh, Part 3

“Here are 12 O’s from a 17th century German book, The Proper Art of Writing, each one more complex…

Three White Girls Successfully Pulling Off Hip-Hop Dance Moves

A Girl’s Education in Little House in the Big Woods

Bat and Ball, “We Prefer It in the Dark”

“I can do only two things for them/ describe this flight/ and not add a last line”

A Very Rare Look Inside the Lisa Frank Headquarters