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Arts
Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble
His keeper, not his editor, I used to call myself in affectionate jest — and with enormous pride and respect.…
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Business
In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat
For decades, Lucy Calkins has determined how millions of children learn to read. An education professor, she has been a…
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Magazine
The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word
The City Council of Mariupol, Ukraine, was trying to make a point about mass death. Their city had been hit…
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Magazine
Can I Utter a Racial Slur in My Classroom?
I teach business law at a private university. One undergraduate course I teach is employment law, which covers discrimination under…
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Magazine
Announcing Our Sixth Modern Love College Essay Contest
The last time we hosted a college essay contest, in 2019, the world was a very different place. Three years…
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Magazine
‘Jeuje,’ ‘Zhoosh,’ ‘Zhuzh’: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings
When you fluff up pillows on your well-worn sofa, or turn your shirt sleeves up just-so, or sprinkle some spices…
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Arts
Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm
By Jennifer Schuessler Apologies to jab, shot and “Fauci ouchie.” Oxford Languages’s 2021 Word of the Year is “vax.” That…
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Food
Attention, New Englanders: Fluffernutter Is Now a Word
New England is where Marshmallow Fluff was created more than 100 years ago, and is still made and largely consumed…
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