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On Earth Tones

As it is well known around the web, TFR is a very fashion forward enterprise. From our sleek design to the measured green fonting, we take matters of style very seriously around here. Accordingly, while reading the Sunday Styles section...

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Weltschmerz

I arrived in D.C. during rush hour and suddenly realized that I wanted to live in a smaller place. A community (DC is a very small place when you place it beside New York) where there is familiarity and...

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Nobel Shmobel

Every year that Philip Roth is passed over for the Nobel Prize in Literature is a year that blessings are blocked. That said, this year's "winner" is a Swedish poet whose work, like everyone outside of Sweden, I had never...

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Hitchens and child

Regardless of your position on Christopher Hitchens and his well-known atheism (or battle with cancer, I should add), this story out of my native Houston about his unexpected discussion about literature with an eight-year-old girl warms the cockles of the...

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Andrew Sullivan Loves Me

Or at least loves my most recent article. Get your mind out of the gutter. I was honored to have my Occupy Wall Street dispatch featured on Andrew Sullivan's blog on the Daily Beast, which you can check out right...

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Occupy Wall Street

Tablet, which seems to be where most of the work is focused these days, sent me to the Occupy Wall Street protests. Here is my dispatch, which discusses the ways in which the protests are an analogue of the Israeli...

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