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Gramercy Park: Cast Out of the Garden

When I turned twelve, my dad decided that it was time for me to go to Hebrew school and get…

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Looking at Art with Peter Schjeldahl

“Cézanne doesn’t cut it.”When I heard Peter utter this sentence at a dinner party, I knew I was in over…

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How to Eat a Rattlesnake

My mother made a point of raising well-spoken Oklahomans. In her household, country participles like “brang” were tantamount to slurs.…

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