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  • 'Friend,' as a Verb, Is 800 Years Old

    Sorry, Zuck! English speakers have been friending each other for centuries.

    Megan GarberJuly 25, 2013
  • Reader's Choice
    William BarrettFebruary 1964 Issue
  • Of Brave Horatius, and Elsie's Brand-New Baby: From the Journal of Opal Whiteley
    Opal WhiteleyMay 1920 Issue
  • Gwyneth Paltrow Goes Country
    Eleanor BarkhornJuly 27, 2010
  • Shakespeare's Lives
    Phoebe Lou AdamsNovember 1970 Issue
  • Trump’s Enablers Will Meet Their Shakespearean Ends

    The Bard had a rich sense of the creeps and criminals, sycophants and slimeballs, weirdos and wing nuts who hang around power.

    Eliot A. CohenDecember 21, 2020
    An illustration of the Rudy Giuliani, Jerry Falwell Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Don Jr. in front of a picture of Shakespeare.
  • Among My Books
    June 1870 Issue
  • 'A Wood Near Athens'
    April 1928 Issue
  • Making Education Hit the Mark
    Willard Giles ParsonsApril 1906 Issue
  • The Princes in the Tower
    Phoebe-Lou AdamsJanuary 1979 Issue
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