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Helen, Help Me: What If You’re Dining with a Jerk?
We don’t always get to choose our dining companions. What’s the right move when you’re seated next to a boor at a restaurant to which you’d like to return?...
A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi
The F.B.I. arrived en masse, along with sailors from a naval airbase. They found the station wagon empty and torched. After six weeks of searching, and using a tip...
The Divided Soul of “Bad Kreyòl”
According to the script, the title of the latest play by Dominique Morisseau is “Bad Creole Kreyòl.” We go with the simplified “Bad Kreyòl”—the language of Haiti written in...
Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown
When I think of Dorothy Parker’s hangovers, and I do, the image that comes to mind is that of the U.S.S. Arizona. A sunken battleship resting at the bottom...