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Priest of Snark: Why One Young Man Heeded the Call

Isabel Tehan profiles a young man who followed his vocation into a dying profession: the Catholic priesthood.

Closer to the Nursing Home

Is this the last magazine I'll read before I die?

The Last Dirty Picture Show

A love letter to the Tiki Adult Theater: "When it’s gone, where will all these lost souls go?"

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Closed Stacks

Perhaps the solution is to ask the bookbot for every book in a given call number range.

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Smoke Break

So many of my thoughts about America, its domestic and international crimes, have revolved around my need to feel like it’s not my fault.

Two Hungry Lovers

Seldom do we consider what is best for mice. Maybe the world is theirs, as well?

An Oscars Emergency in Tlaxiaco

The local authorities had less than an hour to put up the screen, the speakers, and whatever else was needed to watch Yalitza make her way down the red carpet.

The Dora Mayer Duty

In 1916, when this story began, there were only a few Mayers: mad, hysterical, independent, interesting women—alone in their time.

Behind the Barrier

Any one of these prototypes could have easily been created by one of the masters of minimalism. Not Donald Trump, but rather Donald Judd.