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A conversation with Wallace biographer D.T. Max Shortly after David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, The New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max wrote what seemed like the definitive posthumous profile of the tormented and brilliant writer. Yet Max says he finished the piece with more questions…

Precision only gets you so far. “The Writer” (2009) by Kelly C. Tate. I work on and off as a fact-checker at the most accurate magazine in America. I think so, at least. The checker assigned to this piece may come up with a list of competitors for that title—and in that case I’ll say that, having…

Vote for America’s Best Town 64 towns. 1 winner. You decide. Why All Athletes Should Train Like Team Oracle Whatever your sport, you’ll be a better competitor for knowing your gear, inside and out Giving Everest the Bird While it’s hard to argue with a move that can save lives, some mountaineers are…

After the women’s individual competition at Lord’s, the silver medallist, Aída Román, and bronze medallist, Mariana Avitia, took a call from the president of Mexico, who wished to congratulate them on becoming their country’s first ever medal winners in archery. The two women went to the press…

126 The Design of Consumer Electronics By now you know this story:In the middle of the depression the Stanford grads William Hewlett and David Packard starteda partnership in a rented Palo Alto garage – ground zero of Silicon Valley –and in 1939 produced their first commercial product, the 200A…

The core principles that have guided our nation from its inception are as applicable to the Internet age as they were in the time of King George III. Itty-bitty government (Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg) In yesterday’s Atlantic interview, Republican Congressman Darrell Issa issued a conservative…

We’re minimizing the staggering speedup of jobs at the top by labeling it “a woman’s problem.” Rather, it’s the predictable and unavoidable result of the increasing inequality of the American economy. Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and, more recently,…

It’s possible to travel the world with the State Department and still be a devoted parent. It just takes a lot of ingenuity and hard work. Nadezhda1906/Shutterstock Like many women in Washington — and a lot of men, too — I read with fascination Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article in about the…

An Edge Original Essay I am often asked whether I agree with the new group selectionists, and the questioners are always surprised when I say I do not. After all, group selection sounds like a reasonable extension of evolutionary theory and a plausible explanation of the social nature of humans.…

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September 2014 (Boston, MA) —Karl Paulnack, Director of the Music Division, gave an inspiring speech to incoming students at The Boston Conservatory that has resonated with arts supporters worldwide. The full text of the speech can be found below: (FULL TEXT) One of my parents' deepest fears, I…

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< Previous Article Next Article > Volume 379, No. 9826 , p1563–1564, 28 April 2012 Comment Anders Breivik, the public, and psychiatry x Simon Wessely Search for articles by this author Affiliations Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London Weston Education…

An Accident of Hope is a fascinating read for anyone interested in writers, writing, psychotherapy, women, medical ethics, and American society just before the great upheaval of the 1960s. An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton by Dawn M. Skorczewski. Routledge, 268 pages, $35.95. By…

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