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Post Typography So Long, Partner
The curious staying power of husband and wife
Nishant Choksi You’re Saying It Wrong
The implacable pedantry of the word police
Nishant Choksi 'Arab Spring' Goes Back to 1975?
Five contemporary terms that are older than you might think
Nishant Choksi How to Edit a Dictionary
What to keep and what to cut? You can start by checking the Internet.
Nishant Choksi Mad Women: Peggy Takes Charge
The episode description for the season finale of Mad Men, "In Care Of," was vague enough to be hilarious. It read, simply, "Don has difficulties." Of course, he's had difficulties all season; should the last be any surprise? What is a surprise is that in the final episode of season 6, things start to change.
Ben Greenman and Being a Literary Provocateur
Ben Greenman is a writer who pokes, prods, and sets readers off balance in hopes of generating emotion and thought — and maybe, sometimes, simply because he feels like it. This is a man who has purposely inserted typos in his books.
Mad Women: 'I Want to Be a Grownup'
Things are definitely percolating in the season's penultimate episode: Megan and Don have grown dangerously far apart, Pete has discovered Bob Benson's secret, and Sally has certainly not gotten over seeing her father have sex with Sylvia.
The Summer Book Guide: Y.A. Edition
It's summer, summer, summertime, and there is so much good Y.A. available it's hard to keep up. We'll help you get started.
A.O. Scott Reviews the Park Slope Coop: 'A Neo-Realist Fable Involving Cheese'
Did you know that the Brooklyn-based Food Coop has its own official newsletter, The Linewaiters Gazette? It's been around since way back in 1973, and it is its own source of fascinating information. In the latest issue, The New York Times' A.O. Scott dissects the Coop.
