A book on early 20th-century Berlin reads “like a dress rehearsal, in starched collars, for modern Western queer life.”
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Eating grouse is popular with England’s upper classes and practically no one else. “The ‘experience’ has become an ordeal.”
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Food history comes to life—often regrettably—in TikToks from B. Dylan Hollis, who’s baking Depression-era recipes such as the “ration cake”—the main ingredient of which is raisins.
@bdylanhollis I have no words for what came out of the oven #baking #vintage #cooking #cake ? original sound – B. Dylan Hollis
The University of Texas was set to receive Lou Reed’s archive—until the state passed a law allowing handguns on college campuses.
↩︎ The New York Time…
“I may have entered one of the dimensions from five to 27.” Listening to new music on stereo speakers destined for the landfill.
↩︎ Dada Drummer Alman…
Step by step, how a book gets banned from American schools.
↩︎ Motherboard
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“The coronavirus pandemic has created a mass-disabling event that experts liken to HIV, polio, or World War II.”
↩︎ The Washington Post
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In a stunning result, a drug trial with 18 rectal-cancer patients ended with the cancer vanishing in every single one of them.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Russia’s invasion triggered an energy crisis—as Covid lockdowns end and demand increases, the worst may be yet to come.
↩︎ Foreign Affairs
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“Nobody comes to talk to us about clinical trials… I find that it has happened to me because I’m Black, you’ve already formulated an idea that I’m not educated to know about trials or maybe you think I…