Humble Victory

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Guy Scott, former president of Zambia, 1944-2026

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'The Odyssey' Is Just Another Reason for Despair

Christopher Nolan's latest is a testament to the filmmaker’s solemn dedication to the hallowed tradition of filmmaking, but a movie still ne

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How two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life

“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.”

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https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/

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The New ‘Odyssey’ Movie Is Sparking a Right-Wing Backlash. This Female Scholar Knows It Well

Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer’s epic—the first by a woman—was called a woke “abomination” by online reactionaries. Christopher No

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I Went to One of the Last-Ever Shows of a Beloved Rock Band. What I Saw Was Haunting and Strange.

His desiccated performance and chintzy stage show eerily reflected his dark MAGA turn.

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Don't Go Away

We'll Be Back—Right After This Important Message

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Images from Eugène von Guérard’s Australian Landscapes, a series of 24 tinted lithographs published in 1867. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eugene-von-guerard-s-australian-landscapes

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Eugène von Guérard’s *Australian Landscapes* (1867)

Selection from Eugène von Guérard's <em>Australian landscapes: a series of 24 tinted lithographs illustrative of the most striking and pictu

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Tom Brady: The Leather Years | Defector

The post-retirement track record for your hyper-competitive, multiple-champion GOAT-class athletes is not necessarily one you’d want for you

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‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza

The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs a

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Inside the Homes of the Vintage-Obsessed Modern Showgirls Keeping Las Vegas Kitsch Alive

How three entertainers with larger-than-life personas are preserving the retro maximalism that built Sin City

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How an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation’s Second-Largest Faith Group in His Image

Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing

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Rediscovering the Handcart

A pleasure to drive, Low-tech Magazine’s handcart demonstrates the advantages of slow, human-powered transportation.

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What 39 traits reveal about the autism spectrum

The autism spectrum is big, vibrant and complicated, a new graphic of 39 traits shows

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Casa TO: Ludwig Godefroy Blends Tropical Modernism & Brutalism in a Temple-Like Retreat in Mexico

Discover Casa TO in Mexico - where brutalist architecture meets tropical minimalism. Explore raw concrete luxury surrounded by lush gardens.

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The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents

The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot.

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Cardiography | Ben Lerner

After open-heart surgery