Illness is big business
American healthcare is embedded in a competitive medical industry, which often ignores extensive patient care
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 8:29 PM UTC 13Life The Weeklings, healthcare
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Detroit: A city in foreclosure
Thousands of abandoned homes stand as stark reminders of the crippling mortgage crisis
Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 9:06 PM UTCBusiness The Weeklings, Detroit
The best author profile you’ll read this week
The New York Times' feature on George Saunders will restore your faith in writers and their place in the culture
Monday, Jan 21, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Weeklings, George Saunders
Novels about the Internet can still be compelling
Writers like Toby Litt insist that our computer-obsessed lives make for dull fiction. They couldn't be more wrong
Saturday, Jan 19, 2013 11:00 PM UTCLife The Weeklings
Is the novel beyond saving?
Novelists believe they can't compete with the shiny objects on the Internet -- and therein lies the problem
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 18Entertainment The Weeklings, Novels, literature
“Django Unchained’s” secret political triumph
It's been pilloried for trivializing American slavery. What matters is that it's got people talking about race
Friday, Jan 11, 2013 12:02 AM UTC 24All Salon The Weeklings
Nick Carraway is gay and in love with Gatsby
I've read the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic more than any other novel -- and with each reading, I grow more convinced
Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 6:28 PM UTC 55Entertainment The Weeklings, The Great Gatsby
When I learned to hunt
I never thought I'd don an Elmer Fudd outfit when I first moved to the sticks. Who knew it could be so satisfying?
Sunday, Jan 6, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 34Life The Weeklings, Hunting, New York
Jews dig Christmas too
I grew up highly suspicious of Christian holiday traditions. My first Christmas bash changed everything
Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012 9:00 PM UTCLife The Weeklings, Judaism, Christmas
“Miracle on 34th Street”: Best Christmas movie ever?
With its subversive anti-commercialist message, "Miracle on 34th Street" still resonates 65 years later
Monday, Dec 24, 2012 11:00 PM UTC 26Life The Weeklings
Who will be the Maccabees?
Comic books just might foreshadow all the next great advances in video games and computer culture
Monday, Dec 24, 2012 2:00 PM UTCEntertainment Comic Books, Books, superman
Gun violence, by the numbers
These stats tell you everything you need to know about our nationwide epidemic -- and my personal trauma
Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 2:30 PM UTC 11Politics The Weeklings, Gun Violence
Newtown is my hometown
I went to school at Sandy Hook Elementary and Newtown High. Now I wonder if I can ever really go home again
Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 5:29 PM UTCLife The Weeklings
Lebowski’s funnier the second time around
"Heathers." "Groundhog Day." The entire Coen Brothers' filmography. Some movies just improve with repeat viewings
Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012 5:18 PM UTC 25Life The Weeklings, Groundhog Day
Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse
As an MFA student, my fiction was derivative. Then I reconnected with my inner Dungeon Master and found my voice
Saturday, Dec 8, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 14Life The Weeklings
Has the apocalypse gone the way of vampires?
It's become a staple of our entertainment industrial complex, but even armageddon can't last forever
Saturday, Nov 24, 2012 5:00 PM UTC 15Entertainment The Road, Norway, The Weeklings
Did I make it?
I gave myself to the age of 40 to become a successful writer. Well here I am, and now I'm not sure what that means
Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 5:01 PM UTC 21Life Money, literature, The Weeklings
Things we lost in a hurricane
Sandy's destruction offered yet another punishing reminder of how ephemeral the art we produce truly is
Monday, Nov 12, 2012 8:46 PM UTCLife Art, The Weeklings
17 best excuses for Romney’s defeat
Because the GOP will never admit it nominated a morally-bankrupt misogynist who made his living outsourcing jobs
Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 7:26 PM UTC 27Politics 2012 Elections, Canon
If only it made sense to vote for a third party
The Green Party candidate's arrest last week reveals how broken our system is -- and how powerless we are to fix it
Friday, Oct 26, 2012 9:33 PM UTC 114Politics Elections 2012, The Weeklings
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