Memory and Delusion

This is the first piece in a three-part Page-Turner series featuring Shirley Jackson’s lectures on writing. They are drawn from “Let Me Tell...

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What Happened

Blackout , the recent memoir by Sarah Hepola , chronicles the author’s long struggle with reckless drinking. The title references the total ...

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August in the Apple Orchard

Charles-François Daubigny, Orchard , 1865-69 George Bradley’s poem “August in the Apple Orchard” appeared in our Summer 1980 issue . Brad...

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“Twine around each other”

Recommended Reading: “ Management ” by Erin McGraw . from The Millions http://ift.tt/1IyGDoV

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Staff Picks: Local News, Livid Librarians, Loving It All

A still from James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket When Ingrid Sischy died last week, most obituaries remembered her primarily as the ed...

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Title Games

Penguin is celebrating its eightieth anniversary this year. How well do you know its classic book covers? At The Telegraph , a quiz on the ...

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Episode 26: 7 Millions Questions with Karolina Waclawiak

Welcome to a new episode of The Book Report presented by The Millions ! This week, Janet and Mike have “Seven Millions Questions with Karol...

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False Negative

A striking photo of the Brontё sisters is not, in fact, a photo of the Brontё sisters. The women in the photo look a lot like them, but the...

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The Melons of Yesteryear, and Other News

Giovanni Stanchi, Watermelons, peaches, pears and other fruit in a landscape , 1645–72 Today in obsolete fruits: a seventeenth-century s...

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The Unwritten Profile: On The End Of The Tour

Perhaps the biggest compliment I can give to The End of the Tour , the new film about a five-day interview between the writer David Foster ...

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New Drug Lowers Levels of Triglyceride Blood Fats: Study

Title: New Drug Lowers Levels of Triglyceride Blood Fats: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Revie...

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Cooling Bodies of Brain-Dead Donors May Boost Kidney Function After Transplant

Title: Cooling Bodies of Brain-Dead Donors May Boost Kidney Function After Transplant Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM...

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Health Tip: Enjoy Berries

Title: Health Tip: Enjoy Berries Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM from...

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Health Tip: Injuring a Hamstring

Title: Health Tip: Injuring a Hamstring Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM...

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In Rare Cases, Infection May Be at Root of Back Pain

Title: In Rare Cases, Infection May Be at Root of Back Pain Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7...

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Study Finds Drinking May Ease Fibromyalgia Pain, But Doctors Wary

Title: Study Finds Drinking May Ease Fibromyalgia Pain, But Doctors Wary Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editor...

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Texters Walk Cautiously to Avoid Collisions

Title: Texters Walk Cautiously to Avoid Collisions Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2015 ...

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Scientists Suggest New Way to Predict Lung Cancer Risk

Title: Scientists Suggest New Way to Predict Lung Cancer Risk Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review:...

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U.S. Medical Groups Join to Fight Prescription Painkiller Abuse

Title: U.S. Medical Groups Join to Fight Prescription Painkiller Abuse Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editoria...

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Drug May Ease Passage When Kidney Stone Strikes

Title: Drug May Ease Passage When Kidney Stone Strikes Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2...

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Certain Antibiotics Linked to Hearing Loss, Mouse Study Finds

Title: Certain Antibiotics Linked to Hearing Loss, Mouse Study Finds Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial ...

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How Well Does the Newly Approved Weight-Loss 'Balloon' Work?

Title: How Well Does the Newly Approved Weight-Loss 'Balloon' Work? Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Edi...

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Implanted Defibrillators Restore Healthy Heart Function to Many: Study

Title: Implanted Defibrillators Restore Healthy Heart Function to Many: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last E...

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Autism Care Costs Could Hit $500 Billion by 2025: Study

Title: Autism Care Costs Could Hit $500 Billion by 2025: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review...

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Social Life May Be Key to Suicide Prevention for Women

Title: Social Life May Be Key to Suicide Prevention for Women Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review:...

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Five Photographs by Ellen Auerbach

From “ Ellen Auerbach: Classic Works and Collaborations ,” an exhibition at Robert Mann Gallery through August 14. Auerbach, who died in 200...

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Remembering James Salter, and His Commas

A memorial for James Salter was held late Tuesday afternoon on the Upper East Side, at a Unitarian church with an abstract cross in the stai...

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Naptime with Mrs. Melville

A portrait of Maria Gansevoort Melville by Ezra Ames, ca. 1815 Yesterday we posted Rick Moody’s introduction to Genoa: A Telling of Wonde...

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Browne’s Guide to Science Writing

Want to write about science? Let Sir Thomas Browne , “17th-century know-it-all,”  show you how . from The Millions http://ift.tt/1gqX3Fw

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Ur-Road Movie

“This is the first one, the big one, the ur-road movie: the Odyssey .” Charlotte Higgins writes about how Homer’s epic goes far beyond geo...

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Thinking Like a Mountain

How Aldo Leopold came to conservationism. Aldo Leopold on a trip to the Rio Gavilan, ca. 1936. Photo: U.S. Forest Service On the first d...

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Long-form Godfather

Ernest Hemingway , “the godfather of long-form” nonfiction? Richard Brody argues so in the New Yorker , citing Hemingway’s autobiographica...

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Selection of Dr. William T. Riley as the Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH

Announcing the selection of William T. Riley, Ph.D., as the next Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). ...

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Probably Not the Brontës, and Other News

A collector named Seamus Molloy thinks this photo is of the Brontë sisters. Today in pictures of the Brontë sisters that are probably ac...

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Bold but Messy: On Eileen Myles and the Fugitive Form

I have an almost full collection of Hanuman Books, the thumb-size editions handmade by the press founded in 1986 by Raymond Foye and Franc...

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Deaths, Hospital Stays and Costs All Down Among U.S. Seniors

Title: Deaths, Hospital Stays and Costs All Down Among U.S. Seniors Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial R...

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Millions of Americans Reaping Benefits of Affordable Care Act: Study

Title: Millions of Americans Reaping Benefits of Affordable Care Act: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Edi...

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Weight at First Pregnancy Linked to Complications Next Time

Title: Weight at First Pregnancy Linked to Complications Next Time Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Re...

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For Women, No Link Between Kidney Stones, Osteoporosis

Title: For Women, No Link Between Kidney Stones, Osteoporosis Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review:...

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Doctors Perform First Double Hand Transplant in a Child

Title: Doctors Perform First Double Hand Transplant in a Child Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review...

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Jealousy Can Drive Some to Problem Drinking, Study Suggests

Title: Jealousy Can Drive Some to Problem Drinking, Study Suggests Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Re...

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Dialysis Patients May Be Unprepared for Natural Disasters

Title: Dialysis Patients May Be Unprepared for Natural Disasters Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Revi...

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Health Tip: After You Finish a Marathon

Title: Health Tip: After You Finish a Marathon Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/29/2015 12:0...

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Health Tip: Teach Kids to Protect Themselves

Title: Health Tip: Teach Kids to Protect Themselves Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/29/2015...

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FDA Approves 'Belly Balloon' Device for Weight Loss

Title: FDA Approves 'Belly Balloon' Device for Weight Loss Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Re...

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Taking St. John's Wort for Depression Carries Risks: Study

Title: Taking St. John's Wort for Depression Carries Risks: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial...

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Bionic Eye Helps Restore Some Vision in 80-Year-Old

Title: Bionic Eye Helps Restore Some Vision in 80-Year-Old Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/...

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The Square Root of Two

Joaquin Agrasot y Juan, Las Dos Amigas , 1866 It’s late, and you’re still awake. Allow us to help with Sleep Aid , a series devoted to cu...

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