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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Things You Own Insult You

Attachment to objects may be juvenile, but we won’t let that stop us.

You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can’t Viciously Murder It

There’s no worse time than now to be an animal abuser.

Say Good Night, Saturday Morning

On the end of Saturday-morning cartoons.

Tyranny of the Healthy

As our population ages, the question becomes more dire: how do we preserve the rights of the elderly? Atul Gawande's Being Mortal contains some ideas.

Maybe You’re the Villain in Your Story

Notes on an evening with Dan Harmon, and the myriad ways in which you can enchant and disappoint the ones you love (or, at least, who love you).

Negotiating With the Zeitgeist

Prince's new albums fit in with his recent output: variations on conventional songcraft spelled by stretches of self-quotation. And yet, there's still every reason to look forward to what's next.