On how food trends reflect the world we live in, by the author of The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up With Fondue. Case study: a man comes of age between two very different eras of “big yogurt.”
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This spring, three blue whale carcasses washed up on the Newfoundland shore, spurring a panic about whale explosions. These fears, while unfounded, were indicative of something much worse—and marked a new, ominous chapter in the whale’s evolving symbolic import.
Rivka Galchen’s American Innovations tells of moral people stuck in an amoral world. What did America look like before? For answers, you might consult Charles Portis’s Norwood.
The case here described is real, witnessed by the author in bail court. The names have been changed and some details condensed. This week in Worse Off Than You: a young man keeps going home—even when he's not supposed to.
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