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Ladle Me a Bowl of the Midwestern Good Stuff

I was not raised in a family of cooks. My parents grew up in the Midwest, in the second half…

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The Fine Art of the Paperback Makeover

Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers…

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This Year, Make a Resolution About Something Bigger Than Yourself

New Year’s resolutions are penny-ante prayers. You are this way, but you hope to be that way. You used to…

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Can Hope Ever Be a Form of Medicine?

Of all the ways the body can go wrong, A.L.S. is one of the most frightening. It begins subtly —…

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N.I.H.’s New Leader Wants to Broaden Participation in Medical Research

In a wide-ranging interview, Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, the director of the National Institutes of Health, discussed drug patents, trust…

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God, Christmas and Miracles: A Conversation

This is the latest in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity, aimed at bridging America’s God gulf. Previously, I’ve…

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The Artists We Lost in 2023, in Their Words

The many creative people who died this year built their wisdom over lives generously long or much too short, through…

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Why We Can’t Get Enough of Cult Documentaries

The stories are juicy, but the volume is perhaps tied to a persistent question: Why do so many people believe…

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Gaza, Ukraine and the Lingering Scars From the War on Terror

It will be a long time before any of us understand what happened after Oct. 7, but it seems important…

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Our Semicolons, Ourselves

When I go through students’ papers and flag the misplaced modifiers, note the clichés or explain that a 15-sentence paragraph…

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