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View ArticleThere’s Not an App for That, and Other News
Do you really want to write like this guy, anyway? The last thing the world needs is another Hemingway imitator, but a new app purports to help you write like Ernest Hemingway. It lops off adverbs and...
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From a set of French nineteenth-century postcards depicting what we thought we’d be doing in the year 2000. Isn’t it time for the New York Times to abandon its senselessly decorous policy on obscenity?...
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H.D. Last year, having been invited to participate in a public discussion of the poet H.D., I decided to explore H.D.’s fictional works, virtually none of which appeared during her lifetime. Many of...
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