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Prestige Comics: On the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
Really, the trouble began in 2013. That was the year Penguin Classics published Morrissey’s Autobiography, a move that caused a ruckus among both
Tag : Essays
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Ovid’s Exilic Imagination
In the title essay of his book Reflections on Exile, the late Palestinian-American scholar and critic Edward Said describes the terrible costs of
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The Dark Mothers’ Club
No one told me that when I had a child, I would no longer be my child. I didn’t know I had been my own baby, lo, these thirty-five years, but
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In Defense of Visiting an Instagram-Famous Destination
Hiking isn’t just a hobby—it’s a lifestyle. Maggie Slepian tackles the hiking life—and all the joys, problems, arguments, and weird quirks
Anita Jumps the Red Lines
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Bronzeville Sisyphus
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The Regal Theater
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They Call Me Ida B. Wells
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Lemons Always Keep Us Cool
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A Meeting in May
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I Have Been Frying Eggs Wrong My Entire Life, Probably
One of my greatest sources of wonder in life: At every breakfast joint I’ve ever patronized, there is a person working in the kitchen who can cook
Origin Stories: On the Value of Comics
1. I was six years old when I pulled a reprint of “Amazing Spider-Man No. 1” from the rack at Michigan News, a rumpled newsstand at the heart of
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Keep Pedaling
“What is life but a slow march to death?” I said that a lot as a kid, feigning misery in response to having to do chores or homework, anything
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Is Mad in America Doing More Harm Than Good?
Editor’s note: The following is a dialogue between psychiatrist Jim Phelps and Robert Whitaker, founder of MIA. Dr. Phelps submitted a blog in
Blair Kamin’s Tribute to Helmut Jahn
As the Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic for nearly 30 years. I got to know Helmut Jahn and his work from a unique perspective, one that was