what I have enjoyed
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The best shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026: my tier list
I went to Edinburgh for the final five days of the Fringe. I pulled together every booking I could reconstruct from email and every confirmed show on ...
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The best New Yorker articles, ever
Constantly updated. This is a true work in progress. Every New Yorker article is great -- given a certain threshold -- but these are the ones whose fo...
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My favorite New York Times articles, ever
Articles is not the right word. More like metaphysical life-altering essays. "The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami," Sam Anderson. http://www.nyt...
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Anton Chekhov in the Philippines
In Dumaguete, Philippines, at 4 p.m. in the afternoon, the humidity is so overwhelming that the keys on my laptop stick. The “n” is barely functional;...
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Life is Friends, by Jeanne Martinet (Miss Mingle)
On the shelves at Abrams books, I discovered a lovely pastel-colored book slouching on one of the shelves outside my desk. During a free lunch, I slip...
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1-minute read: The Upside of Irrationality, by Dan Ariely
I love psychology, but I hate pop psychology books. Distilled for the masses (the masses being the soft American middle: white, 45-year-old housewife ...
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The real life afterlife: Sleep No More
"Sleep No More"—three hours' worth of orgies, murders, love-making, and ghosts, often astutely choreographed to dance and performed across three aband...
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Afterlife, spoiler-alert: Me convincing you to see Sleep No More
I'm the last person that appreciates good theater. Case in point: at Yale, I fell asleep, at least for a little bit, during every play I attended, whe...
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"You're only as good as your last haircut": Rafael's, the best barber in East Village
My high school yearbook quote was probably the worst out of the 660 people in our graduating class: “Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other h...