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Notes on Vape
Photo: Jon Williams, via Flickr Last night, Oxford Dictionaries announced its Word of the Year—vape—and it was hard not to feel, at first, a twinge of disappointment. After all, 2013’s Word of the Year...
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Practice Safe Selfies, and Other News
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Before the Blast
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Toward a More Radical Selfie
Mitchell Grafton, Updating Vermeer. 2012 We are at the end of an era characterized by the self-portrait. This claim is not provocative—we’ve lived as characters for some time and have all felt it...
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Tragic, Indeed
If selfie was the word of the year, can the slightly more literary shelfie be far behind? Nothing if not forward-thinking, Neil Gaiman legitimizes it on WhoSay: “A tragic shelfie. We are preparing to...
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Notes on Vape
Photo: Jon Williams, via Flickr Last night, Oxford Dictionaries announced its Word of the Year—vape—and it was hard not to feel, at first, a twinge of disappointment. After all, 2013’s Word of the Year...
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Practice Safe Selfies, and Other News
John William Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus, 1903. Admire the tenacity of lit mags yet question their utility? The poet Stephen Burt argues that a new journal simply needs a raison d’être: it should...
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Before the Blast
How expats fashion online identities while living in a war zone. A shop owner jokingly points a toy gun at the author in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley. All photos by Deni Ellis Béchard. All wars have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Toward a More Radical Selfie
Mitchell Grafton, Updating Vermeer. 2012 We are at the end of an era characterized by the self-portrait. This claim is not provocative—we’ve lived as characters for some time and have all felt it...
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